Case Name: Balwinder KAUR, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-09-30
Citations: 540 F. App'x 701
Docket Number: No. 08-72020
Parties: Balwinder KAUR, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: RAWLINSON, N.R. SMITH, and CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 540
Pages: 701–702

Head Matter:
Balwinder KAUR, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 08-72020.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Sept. 24, 2013.
Filed Sept. 30, 2013.
Saad Ahmad, Fremont, CA, for Petitioner.
John Clifford Cunningham, I, Esquire, Senior Litigation Counsel, OIL, Saul Greenstein, Esquire, Trial, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, WWS-District Counsel, Esquire, Immigration and Naturalization Service Office of the District Counsel, Seattle, WA, for Respondent.
Before: RAWLINSON, N.R. SMITH, and CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Balwinder Kaur, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge's decision denying her application for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence factual findings. Zehatye v. Gonzales, 453 F.3d 1182, 1184-85 (9th Cir.2006). We deny in part and grant in part the petition for review, and remand for further proceedings.
Substantial evidence supports the agency's determination that, even though Kaur established past persecution on account of an imputed political opinion, her presumption of a well-founded fear of future persecution was rebutted by evidence of changed country conditions in India. See 8 C.F.R. § 1208.13(b)(l)(i)(A); see also Gonzalez-Hernandez v. Ashcroft, 336 F.3d 995, 999-1000 (9th Cir.2003) (noting that BIA has expertise to construe country reports and determine whether country conditions have changed sufficiently to rebut a presumption of future persecution). The agency rationally construed the evidence in the record and provided a sufficiently individualized analysis of Kaur's future fear. Id.
Because Kaur has not established a well-founded fear of persecution, she necessarily cannot meet the more stringent standard for withholding of removal. See Zehatye v. Gonzales, 453 F.3d 1182, 1190 (9th Cir.2006).
However, in assessing humanitarian asylum, the agency failed to address Kaur's argument that she may be eligible due to "other serious harm" under 8 C.F.R. § 1208.13(b)(l)(iii)(B). Thus, we remand for further proceedings on this issue. See INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 16-18, 123 S.Ct. 353, 154 L.Ed.2d 272 (2002) (per curiam); Hanna v. Keisler, 506 F.3d 933, 939 (9th Cir.2007) (remanding for further proceedings where agency did not consider both statutory provisions for humanitarian asylum); see also Sagaydak v. Gonzales, 405 F.3d 1035, 1040 (9th Cir.2005) (BIA is not free to ignore arguments made by applicant). .
Each party shall bear its own costs for this petition for review.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part, GRANTED in part; REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.