Case Name: Carlos Angel LUIS-FELIZ, Petitioner v. Alberto GONZALES, Attorney General of the United States, Respondents, (Amended pursuant to Rule 43(c), Fed. R.App. Pro.)
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-10-12
Citations: 145 F. App'x 396
Docket Number: No. 04-3301
Parties: Carlos Angel LUIS-FELIZ, Petitioner v. Alberto GONZALES, Attorney General of the United States, Respondents, (Amended pursuant to Rule 43(c), Fed. R.App. Pro.).
Judges: Before ALITO, AMBRO, and LOURIE, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 145
Pages: 396–397

Head Matter:
Carlos Angel LUIS-FELIZ, Petitioner v. Alberto GONZALES, Attorney General of the United States, Respondents, (Amended pursuant to Rule 43(c), Fed. R.App. Pro.).
No. 04-3301.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Submitted pursuant to LAR 34.1(a) Sept. 26, 2005.
Decided Oct. 12, 2005.
James J. Orlow, Orlow & Orlow, Philadelphia, PA, for Petitioner.
Clinton A. Townsend, New York, NY, Jonathan Potter, United States Department of Justice Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondents.
Before ALITO, AMBRO, and LOURIE, Circuit Judges.
Honorable Alan D. Lourie, United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
PER CURIAM.
Carlos Angel Luis-Feliz seeks review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") vacating and remanding a decision by an Immigration Judge ("IJ"). The IJ ordered these proceedings terminated after concluding that Luis-Feliz was a United States citizen. Because the BIA disagreed with that assessment, it remanded to the IJ for a removability determination. This petition followed. Because we write for the parties, we do not set out the facts. We will dismiss this petition for want of jurisdiction.
I.
Under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(1), we have jurisdiction to review only a final order of removal. See Popal v. Gonzales, 416 F.3d 249, 252 n. 1 (3d Cir.2005). An "order of removal" is a determination that an alien is removable. See 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(47)(A) (defining the term "order of deportation"); Avila-Macias v. Ashcroft, 328 F.3d 108, 111-12 (3d Cir.2003) (concluding that there is no difference between "removal" and "deportation"). That order becomes final when the BIA affirms the IJ's decision or when the time for appeal to the BIA expires. See 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(47)(B).
II.
The BIA has decided that Luis-Feliz is an alien, but neither it nor the IJ has yet determined that he is removable. As such, there is no order of removal (much less a final one) before us, and we lack jurisdiction to hear this petition. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(1); Lopez-Ruiz v. Ashcroft, 298 F.3d 886, 887 (9th Cir.2002) (order).
III.
For this reason, we must dismiss LuisFeliz's petition for review without prejudice.