Case Name: Ramonito Biong ROBOCA, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-07-06
Citations: 138 F. App'x 927
Docket Number: No. 03-74077
Parties: Ramonito Biong ROBOCA, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, CANBY and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 138
Pages: 927–927

Head Matter:
Ramonito Biong ROBOCA, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 03-74077.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted June 16, 2005.
Decided July 6, 2005.
Martin Resendez Guajardo, Esq., Law Office of Martin Resendez Guajardo, A Professional Corporation, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner.
Regional Counsel, Western Region Immigration & Naturalization Service, Laguna Niguel, CA, William Campbell Erb, Jr., Attorney, Terri J. Scadron, Esq., DOJ— U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, CANBY and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.
Alberto R. Gonzales is substituted for his predecessor, John Ashcroft, as Attorney General of the United States, pursuant to Fed. R.App. P. 43(c)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Ramonito Biong Roboca petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals's ("BIA's") decision finding him removable for (1) overstaying his temporary visa and (2) making a false claim of citizenship. The government having exercised its discretion to charge petitioner in a way that compels inadmissibility and ineligibility for waiver of inadmissibility, we deny the petition for review.
"Any alien who falsely represents, or has falsely represented, himself to be a citizen of the United States for any purpose or benefit under this Act . or any Federal or State law" is deportable, 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(3)(D), and inadmissible. 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(6)(C)(ii). Roboca's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1028(a)(4) for "knowingly and willfully possessing a false identification document . with the intent to use that document to defraud the United States," together with his statements in his plea agreement that he applied for a United States passport with a birth certificate he knew to be false, in order to obtain the passport, and his sworn testimony before the IJ that he falsely represented himself to be a United States citizen to obtain the passport, establish a false claim of citizenship under § 1227(a)(3)(D) and § 1182(a)(6)(C)(ii). There is no waiver of inadmissibility for falsely claiming citizenship. See 8 U.S.C. § 1182(1); Pichardo v. INS, 216 F.3d 1198, 1201 (9th Cir.2000).
PETITION 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.