Case Name: Kaliti DIA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-04-03
Citations: 514 F. App'x 699
Docket Number: No. 11-71337
Parties: Kaliti DIA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: PREGERSON, REINHARDT, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 514
Pages: 699–700

Head Matter:
Kaliti DIA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 11-71337.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted March 12, 2013.
Filed April 3, 2013.
Stephen John Coghlan, Esquire, Law Office of Stephen Coghlan, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner.
Tracie Nicole Jones, Trial, DOJ — U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: PREGERSON, REINHARDT, and W. FLETCHER, 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
Kaliti Dia, a native and citizen of Fiji, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge's ("U") decision denying her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence factual findings. Zehatye v. Gonzales, 453 F.3d 1182, 1184-85 (9th Cir. 2006). We deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.
Dia does not challenge the agency's dis-positive determination that her application for asylum was time-barred. See Martinez-Serrano v. INS, 94 F.3d 1256, 1259-60 (9th Cir.1996). Accordingly, Dia's asylum claim fails.
Dia presented evidence that unknown people threw rocks at her family's house when she was not there and she was inconvenienced by civil unrest. Substantial evidence supports the agency's determination that Dia failed to establish she suffered past persecution. See Singh v. INS, 134 F.3d 962, 967-69 (9th Cir.1998). We lack jurisdiction to consider Dia's argument that the agency should have considered her eligibility for asylum on the basis of unsubstantiated harms allegedly suffered by her Fijian son, because she did not raise this argument to the BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir.2004). We reject Dia's contention that the BIA ignored harm that she allegedly suffered while she was in the hospital during the 2000 coup because she has not overcome the presumption that the BIA considered the entire record. See Fernandez v. Gonzales, 439 F.3d 592, 603 (9th Cir.2006). Thus, Dia's contention that she is entitled to a presumption of future persecution fails. See Molina-Estrada v. INS, 293 F.3d 1089, 1096 (9th Cir.2002). In addition, substantial evidence supports the agency's determination that Dia's fear of returning to Fiji, based on general political instability and ongoing ethnic tensions, lacks a nexus to a protected ground, particularly since Dia is a member of the ethnic Fijian majority. See Singh, 134 F.3d at 970-71. Accordingly, Dia's withholding of removal claim fails. See Zehatye, 453 F.3d at 1190.
The BIA properly declined to reinstate Dia's voluntary departure period for failure to timely submit proof of having posted her voluntary departure bond. See 8 C.F.R. § 1240.26(c)(3)(ii). Dia's arguments on appeal that the IJ failed to explicitly explain the requirements and consequences regarding posting a bond are not supported.
Finally, substantial evidence supports the agency's denial of CAT relief because Dia failed to establish that it is more likely than not that she will be tortured if she returns to Fiji. See Wakkary v. Holder, 558 F.3d 1049, 1067-67 (9th Cir.2009).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; DISMISSED in part.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.