Case Name: Anayeliy GALVAN, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2008-03-24
Citations: 272 F. App'x 555
Docket Number: No. 07-70377
Parties: Anayeliy GALVAN, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 272
Pages: 555–556

Head Matter:
Anayeliy GALVAN, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 07-70377.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted March 18, 2008.
Filed March 24, 2008.
Anayeliy Galvan, Costa Mesa,' CA, pro se.
CAC-District Counsel, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, Los Angeles, CA, Nehal H. Kama-ni, James A. Hunolt, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, D.C., Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: CANBY, T.G. NELSON, and BEA, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Anayeliy Galvan, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order summarily affirming an immigration judge's ("IJ") decision denying her application for cancellation of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo questions of law, Rosales-Rosales v. Ashcroft, 347 F.3d 714, 717 (9th Cir.2003), and we grant the petition for review.
The agency erred as a matter of law in basing its moral character determination on two 1995 convictions. Because the IJ issued his decision in 2004, and because the final agency decision was issued in 2006 when the BIA summarily affirmed, the 1995 convictions were not relevant to Galvan's moral character. See Matter of Ortega-Cabrera, 23 I. & N. Dec. 793, 797-98 (BIA 2005) ("[C]ommission of a disqualifying act beyond the 10-year period looking backward from the date of the final administrative decision will not render an alien ineligible for relief on grounds of moral character."). Accordingly, we remand for further proceedings. See generally INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 123 S.Ct. 353, 154 L.Ed.2d 272 (2002) (per curiam).
PETITION FOR REVIEW GRANTED; REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.