Case Name: Marvin Ramon ECHEGOYEN, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-03-01
Citations: 637 F. App'x 456
Docket Number: No. 14-70456
Parties: Marvin Ramon ECHEGOYEN, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: LEAVY, FERNANDEZ, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 637
Pages: 456–457

Head Matter:
Marvin Ramon ECHEGOYEN, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 14-70456.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Feb. 24, 2016.
Filed March 1, 2016.
Marvin Ramon Echegoyen, Gadsden, AL, pro se.
Andrea Gevas, OIL, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel ICE, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of .Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: LEAVY, FERNANDEZ, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Marvin Ramon Echegoyen, a native and citizen of Nicaragua, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge's ("IJ") decision determining that he was removable and denying cancellation of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo questions of law. Coronado v. Holder, 759 F.3d 977, 982 (9th Cir. 2014). We deny in part and grant in part the petition for review, and remand.
To prevail on his claim to derivative U.S. citizenship, Echegoyen was required to prove that "there has been a legal separation of the parents." See 8 U.S.C. § 1432(a)(3) (1981). Because Echegoyen has failed to produce any evidence that his parents were married, he has failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact as to his citizenship and, accordingly, we conclude that petitioner has not established his claim of derivative citizenship. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(5)(A) ("If the petitioner claims to be a national of the United States and the court of appeals finds from the pleadings and affidavits that no genuine issue of material fact about the petitioner's nationality is presented, the court shall decide the nationality claim."); Barthelemy v. Ashcroft, 329 F.3d 1062, 1065 (9th Cir.2003) (holding that a petitioner did not "enjoy derivative citizenship under . [8 U.S.C. § 1432(a)(3)] because his natural parents never married and thus could not legally separate" (emphasis in original)).
The BIA's conclusion that Echegoyen is removable for having committed a domestic violence offense was based on documentation of his 2004 battery conviction, his admission that he had been convicted of "a domestic violence," and his concession that he was removable. However, the record shows that Echegoyen's 2004 battery conviction was under Nevada Revised Stat utes § 200.481, a general battery statute that does not include specific domestic violence offenses. Because Echegoyen's admissions and concessions concerning whether he had been convicted of a domestic violence offense are contradicted by the record, we remand to the agency with instructions to permit Echegoyen to withdraw his pleading as to both grounds of removability. See Perez-Mejia v. Holder, 663 F.3d 403, 416-17 (9th Cir.2011) (this court may set aside an IJ determination that rests on an alien's erroneous concession).
In light of this disposition, we do not reach petitioner's remaining contentions.
Each party shall bear its own costs for this petition for review.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; GRANTED in part; and REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.