Case Name: Martha Elena GONZALEZ SALAZAR, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-12-16
Citations: 158 F. App'x 912
Docket Number: No. 04-71782
Parties: Martha Elena GONZALEZ SALAZAR, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: GOODWIN, W. FLETCHER, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 158
Pages: 912–914

Head Matter:
Martha Elena GONZALEZ SALAZAR, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 04-71782.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Dec. 5, 2005.
Decided Dec. 16, 2005.
Walter Rafael Pineda, Esq., Law Offices of Walter Rafael Pineda, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner.
Regional Counsel, Western Region Immigration & Naturalization Service, Laguna Niguel, CA, Carl H. McIntyre, Jr., John L. Davis, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: GOODWIN, W. FLETCHER, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Martha Elena Gonzalez Salazar, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' decision summarily affirming an immigration judge's ("IJ") order denying her application for cancellation of removal on hardship grounds. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion an IJ's decision to deny a continuance, Nakamoto v. Ashcroft, 363 F.3d 874, 883 n. 6 (9th Cir.2004), and we review de novo due process claims, Martinez-Rosas v. Gonzales, 424 F.3d 926, 930 (9th Cir.2005). We deny the petition for review.
Gonzalez Salazar testified that her legal permanent resident father would remain in the United States upon her removal to Mexico, and that his medical and financial needs would be met by her United States citizen brother. Under these circumstances, the IJ did not abuse her discretion by denying Gonzalez Salazar's request for a continuance to obtain further evidence regarding her father's medical condition. See Baires v. INS, 856 F.2d 89, 91 (9th Cir.1988) (requiring an IJ to consider the nature of the evidence to be presented and its importance to the alien's claim before denying a continuance).
Because the IJ did not abuse her discretion in denying Gonzalez Salazar's requests for a continuance, the Petitioner cannot show that her due process rights were violated. See Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1246 (9th Cir.2000) (holding that an alien must show error and substantial prejudice in order to prevail on a due process claim).
The voluntary departure period was stayed, and that stay will expire upon issu anee of the mandate. See Desta v. Ashcroft, 365 F.3d 741 (9th Cir.2004).
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 9th Cir. R. 36-3.