Case Name: Robinson PINILLA-PULIDO; et al., Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-03-03
Citations: 418 F. App'x 602
Docket Number: No. 06-74353
Parties: Robinson PINILLA-PULIDO; et al., Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: RYMER and BYBEE, Circuit Judges, and QUIST, Senior District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 418
Pages: 602–604

Head Matter:
Robinson PINILLA-PULIDO; et al., Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 06-74353.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Feb. 17, 2011.
Filed March 3, 2011.
John Wolfgang Gehart, Russell M. Jauregui, Esquire, Carlos Vellanoweth, Es~ quire, Elena Yampolsky, Esquire, Vellanoweth & Gehart, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioners.
Janet A. Bradley, Esquire, 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: RYMER and BYBEE, Circuit Judges, and QUIST, Senior District Judge.
The Honorable Gordon J. Quist, Senior District Judge for the U.S. District Court for Western Michigan, Grand Rapids, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Robinson Pinilla-Pulido ("Pinilla"), along with his wife, son, and daughter, appeal a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") denying their application for asylum from Colombia and Venezuela and withholding of removal to Venezuela.
The BIA found that Petitioners are ineligible for asylum from Colombia because, prior to arriving in the United States, they had firmly resettled in Venezuela. In reaching this decision, the BIA explicitly adopted the reasoning of the Immigration Judge ("IJ") and did not apply the firm resettlement standard enunciated in Maharaj v. Gonzales, 450 F.3d 961 (9th Cir.2006), an intervening en banc decision of this court. Because neither the IJ nor the BIA considered whether Petitioners were firmly resettled in Venezuela under Maharaj, we vacate the BIA's decision and we remand this case to the BIA for reconsideration in light of Maharaj.
At oral argument, Petitioners' counsel asked this court to consider recent evidence of changed country conditions in Venezuela reflecting the Venezuelan government's support of the Colombian FARC. We refuse to consider this evidence because it is not part of the record. 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(4)(A). Petitioners should present this evidence in the first instance to the BIA through a motion to reopen. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(ii); 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3)(ii); Malty v. Ashcroft, 381 F.3d 942, 945-46 (9th Cir.2004).
We hereby GRANT the petition, VACATE the BIA's decision, and REMAND for reconsideration in light of Maharaj.
This disposition is not appropriate for publi cation and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.