Case Name: Francisco Eliezer Palafox PADILLA, AKA Hector Lopez, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2018-02-28
Citations: 713 F. App'x 723
Docket Number: No. 14-73238
Parties: Francisco Eliezer Palafox PADILLA, AKA Hector Lopez, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: McKEOWN and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges, and QUIST, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 713
Pages: 723–724

Head Matter:
Francisco Eliezer Palafox PADILLA, AKA Hector Lopez, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 14-73238
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted February 12, 2018 Pasadena, California
Filed February 28, 2018
John Martin Pope, Benjamin Wiesinger, Pope & Associates, PC, Phoenix, AZ, for Petitioner
Allison Frayer, Jesse David Lorenz, Esquire, Trial Attorney, DOJ—U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel ICE, Office of the Chief Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent
Before: McKEOWN and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges, and QUIST, District Judge.
The Honorable Gordon J. Quist, United States District Judge for the Western District of Michigan, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Francisco Eliezer Palafox Padilla, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") denial of asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We deny the petition in part, grant it in part, and remand.
1. Asylum Claim
Whether or not Palafox addressed every reason for the Board's finding that his asylum application was untimely, Palafox's opening brief clearly challenged that finding and thus preserved the issue for appeal. See Brown v. Rawson-Neal Psych. Hosp., 840 F.3d 1146, 1149 (9th Cir. 2016) ("We . reasonably require parties to preserve valid issues in order to conserve judicial resources and to assist our review.").
The BIA properly concluded that Pala-fox's . application for asylum was time-barred. Although a delay of six months after the expiration of lawful nonimmi-grant status is "presumptively reasonable," Singh v. Holder, 656 F.3d 1047, 1056 (9th Cir. 2011), a nine- to eleven-year delay is not. Ignorance of asylum law is not a special consideration excusing Palafox's delay in filing. See Antonio-Martinez v. INS, 317 F.3d 1089, 1093 (9th Cir. 2003) ("As a general rule, ignorance of the law is no excuse."). Therefore, Palafox's petition for review challenging the BIA's denial of his application for asylum is denied.
2. Withholding op Removal and Cat Protection Claims
With respect to Palafox's petition for review of his claims for withholding of removal and CAT protection, we grant and remand to the BIA to consider Palafox's eligibility in light of our intervening decisions in Barajas-Romero v. Lynch, 846 F.3d 351 (9th Cir. 2017), and Bringas-Rodriguez v. Sessions, 850 F.3d 1051 (9th Cir. 2017) (en banc). Neither the BIA nor the parties had the benefit of these decisions.
Each party shall bear its own costs on appeal.
PETITION DENIED in part, GRANTED in part, and REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.