Case Name: Mayra Roxana CRUZ-CARBALLO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-01-12
Citations: 408 F. App'x 102
Docket Number: No. 09-72199
Parties: Mayra Roxana CRUZ-CARBALLO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: GOODWIN, WALLACE, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 408
Pages: 102–103

Head Matter:
Mayra Roxana CRUZ-CARBALLO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 09-72199.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Dec. 14, 2010.
Filed Jan. 12, 2011.
Mayra Roxana Cruz-Carballo, Los Angeles, CA, pro se.
Ronald E. LeFevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Andrew Nathan O’Malley, OIL, Ernesto Horacio Molina, Jr., U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: GOODWIN, WALLACE, and THOMAS, 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
Mayra Roxana Cruz-Carballo, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge's removal order. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo questions of law, Khan v. Holder, 584 F.3d 773, 776 (9th Cir.2009), and we grant the petition for review.
The BIA failed to address Cruz-Carballo's contention that she is eligible for special rule cancellation of removal under 8 C.F.R. § 1240.66(c), which implements the provision of the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act of 1997 ("NACARA") authorizing relief for otherwise eligible aliens who are removable due to certain criminal convictions. See NA-CARA § 203(b). Although both parties discuss Cruz-Carballo's eligibility for this relief in their briefing, because "this court cannot affirm the BIA on a ground upon which it did not rely," Navas v. INS, 217 F.3d 646, 658 n. 16 (9th Cir.2000), we grant the petition for review and remand the case to the BIA to address Cruz-Carballo's eligibility in the first instance. See INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 16, 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 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.