Case Name: Mahendra SINGH; et al., Petitioners, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2006-03-15
Citations: 171 F. App'x 160
Docket Number: No. 04-72950
Parties: Mahendra SINGH; et al., Petitioners, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: CANBY, BEEZER and KOZINSKI, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 171
Pages: 160–160

Head Matter:
Mahendra SINGH; et al., Petitioners, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 04-72950.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted March 8, 2006.
Decided March 15, 2006.
Olga Standifer, San Jose, CA, for Petitioners.
Ronald E. LeFevre, Chief Counsel, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Ari Nazarov, Esq., U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: CANBY, BEEZER and KOZINSKI, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Mahendra Singh, his wife, Gian Kaur, and their daughter, Praveen Kaur, natives and citizens of Fiji, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") affirmance of an Immigration Judge's ("IJ") denial of their applications for asylum, withholding of deportation, and for relief under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). We review the IJ's and BIA's decision for substantial evidence. INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481, 112 S.Ct. 812, 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). We deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.
Substantial evidence supports the IJ's and BIA's decision that petitioners failed to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution based on an enumerated ground. Because petitioners failed to present evidence compelling the conclusion that any mistreatment that they may have experienced was based on an enumerated ground, petitioners fail to establish eligibility for asylum. See id. Accordingly, we deny the petition on the asylum claim.
Petitioners failed to exhaust their withholding of deportation and CAT claims before the BIA, and therefore we lack jurisdiction to consider these claims. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir.2004).
Pursuant to Elian v. Ashcroft, 370 F.3d 897 (9th Cir.2004) (order), petitioners' voluntary departure period will begin to run upon issuance of this court's mandate.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part and DISMISSED in part.
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.