Case Name: Chun Ling WANG, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2003-12-23
Citations: 84 F. App'x 197
Docket Number: No. 02-3823
Parties: Chun Ling WANG, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.
Judges: Before SLOVITER, ALITO and FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 84
Pages: 197–199

Head Matter:
Chun Ling WANG, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.
No. 02-3823.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Submitted Under Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a) Dec. 1, 2003.
Decided Dec. 23, 2003.
Thomas V. Massucci, New York, NY, for Petitioner.
Marion E. Guyton, Richard M. Evans, Douglas E. Ginsburg, John D. Williams, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before SLOVITER, ALITO and FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judges.
Hon. Daniel M. Friedman, United States Senior Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Chun Ling Wang petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") for his removal. Wang raises two issues: 1) whether the BIA's affirmance without opinion of the Immigration Judge's ("IJ's") decision satisfied the condition set out in 8 C.F.R. § 3.1(a)(7)(ii); and 2) whether failure of the BIA to satisfy these conditions constitutes a violation of his due process rights.
It is not clear whether Wang is challenging the procedure adopted by the BIA incorporated in its streamlining regulations. If that is his challenge, this Court has recently sustained the validity of the streamlining regulations in our en banc opinion in Dia v. Ashcroft, No. 02-2460. If, instead, Wang is arguing that this was an inappropriate case for the BIA to apply the streamlining procedure, that is not subject to judicial review. The BIA's decision to apply the streamlining regulations to a particular case is a matter committed to its discretion and is unreviewable. On the other hand, if Wang is challenging the IJ's decision to enter a final order of removal on the ground that it is not supported by substantial evidence, we do have jurisdiction to review that issue.
The Immigration. and Nationality Act (INA) provides for withholding of removal in certain circumstances. 8 U.S.C. § 1231(b)(3). However, the Supreme Court has stated that the alien must demonstrate a "clear probability" of persecution in order to be eligible for such relief. See INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca, 480 U.S. 421, 445-49,107 S.Ct. 1207, 94 L.Ed.2d 434 (1987). Wang's brief does not refer to any evidence that would support his allegations of fear of persecution. That alone should be sufficient to warrant denial of his petition for review.
We consider Wang's second issue, claiming that the transcript of his hearing is so replete with clerical errors and omissions that it constitutes a violation of due process. While there do seem to be some clerical errors, particularly unnecessary and unexplained duplication, we do not believe that they reach the extreme of constituting a due process violation. Wang has not pointed to any material omissions, which would present a more serious problem. However, the nature of the omissions can be deduced from other references in the hearing transcript. Assuming arguendo that there were some omissions, possibly because they were asides and not spoken on the record, the alleged omissions to which Wang refers do not provide the basis for his alleged fear of persecution. We agree with the Government that any errors made were harmless or nonmaterial. Moreover, as the Government's brief points out, Wang failed to point out these errors in the transcription by appealing to the Board which would have been in the position to direct some remedial action. Inasmuch as Wang failed to exhaust his administrative remedies, he cannot now argue that he is entitled to a remand based on the allegedly incomplete transcript.
We see nothing fundamentally unfair in the proceeding before the IJ. We see no reason to hold that the BIA abused its discretion in applying these streamlining regulations in this particular case.
Accordingly, we will deny Wang's petition for review.