Case Name: Concepcion ALANIS-GOMEZ, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2003-09-16
Citations: 75 F. App'x 650
Docket Number: No. 02-71952; Agency No. A75-266-689
Parties: Concepcion ALANIS-GOMEZ, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 75
Pages: 650–650

Head Matter:
Concepcion ALANIS-GOMEZ, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 02-71952.
Agency No. [ AXX-XXX-XXX ].
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Sept. 8, 2003.
Decided Sept. 16, 2003.
Antonio Reyna Salazar, Salazar Law Offices, Seattle, WA, for Petitioner.
Regional Counsel, Western Region, Immigration & Naturalization Service, Laguna Niguel, CA, Ronald E. LeFevre, Chief Legal Officer, Office of the District Counsel, San Francisco, CA, WWS-Distriet Counsel, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Seattle, WA, Virginia Lum, Office of Immigration Litigation, Terri J. Scadron, Esq., DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Div./Offiee of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before PREGERSON, THOMAS and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Concepcion Alanis-Gomez, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing her appeal from an Immigration Judge's decision pretermitting her application for suspension of deportation. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo the BIA's determination that it lacked jurisdiction, Da Cruz v. INS, 4 F.3d 721, 722 (9th Cir.1993), and we deny the petition for review.
Although substantial evidence does not support the BIA's determination that Alanis-Gomez knowingly and intelligently waived her right to appeal to the BIA, see Leonard v. Clark, 12 F.3d 885, 889 (9th Cir.1993), she did not suffer prejudice as a result of the BIA's error because the Attorney General has sole discretion over when immigration proceedings are initiated and the IJ and BIA lack authority to review the Attorney General's determination, see Cortez-Felipe v. INS, 245 F.3d 1054, 1056 (9th Cir.2001); United States v. Corrales-Beltran, 192 F.3d 1311, 1318 (9th Cir.1999) (petitioner must offer a plausible grounds for relief which might have been available to her but for the error in her deportation proceeding to show prejudice).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.