Case Name: Zhe MENG, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2004-12-08
Citations: 115 F. App'x 338
Docket Number: No. 03-71921
Parties: Zhe MENG, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 115
Pages: 338–339

Head Matter:
Zhe MENG, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 03-71921.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Dec. 6, 2004.
Decided Dec. 8, 2004.
Scott Warmuth, Esq., Law Office of Scott Warmuth, Monterey Park, CA, for Petitioner.
Regional Counsel, Western Region Immigration & Naturalization Service, Laguna Niguel, CA, Ronald E. LeFevre, Chief Legal Officer, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Mary Jane Candaux, Esq., Deborah N. Misir, Esq., DOJ — U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: GOODWIN, WALLACE and TROTT, Circuit Judges.
This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. RApp. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Zhe Meng, a native and citizen of China, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") affirmance of an immigration judge's denial of his application for asylum, withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT").
We lack jurisdiction to review the BIA's determination that no "extraordinary circumstances" excused Meng's untimely filing of his application for asylum. See Molina-Estrada v. INS, 293 F.3d 1089, 1093 (9th Cir.2002). Accordingly, we dismiss Meng's petition with respect to his asylum claim.
We have jurisdiction to review the BIA's denial of Meng's withholding of removal and CAT claims under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence, and we will uphold the BIA's decision unless the evidence compels a contrary conclusion. Bellout v. Ashcroft, 363 F.3d 975, 977-79 (9th Cir.2004).
We deny Meng's petition for review with respect to his claims for withholding of removal and relief under CAT because Meng did not present sufficient evidence to compel a finding that it is more likely than not that he will be subject to persecution or tortured if he returned to China. See Abebe v. Ashcroft, 379 F.3d 755, 760 (9th Cir.2004); Malhi v. INS, 336 F.3d 989, 993 (9th Cir.2003).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED in part AND DENIED 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.