Case Name: Anibal CATALAN-ZACARIAS, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2003-08-19
Citations: 73 F. App'x 284
Docket Number: No. 02-72966; Agency No. A77-318-674
Parties: Anibal CATALAN-ZACARIAS, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, HAWKINS, and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 73
Pages: 284–284

Head Matter:
Anibal CATALAN-ZACARIAS, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 02-72966. Agency No. [ AXX-XXX-XXX ].
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Aug. 11, 2003.
Decided Aug. 19, 2003.
Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, HAWKINS, and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Aníbal Catalan-Zacarias, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions pro se for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") dismissing his appeal from an Immigration Judge's ("IJ") order denying his request to administratively close his removal proceedings so that he could apply for Special Rule Cancellation of Removal as provided by the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act of 1997. We deny the petition in part and dismiss it in part.
The IJ correctly concluded that because Catalan-Zacarias turned twenty one before a decision had been made on his mother's application for suspension of deportation, he was ineligible for derivative relief as her dependent. See 8 C.F.R. § 240.61(a)(4).
We dismiss Catalan-Zacarias' petition to the extent he contends the reasoning of the Child Status Protection Act should be applied to his case because he failed to exhaust his administrative remedies before the IJ or BIA. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(d)(1); Ortiz v. INS, 179 F.3d 1148, 1152 (9th Cir.1999).
PETITION DENIED in part; 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.