Case Name: Rafaela GONZALEZ-RIOS, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-01-07
Citations: 361 F. App'x 833
Docket Number: No. 05-76935
Parties: Rafaela GONZALEZ-RIOS, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: SCHROEDER and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges, and LYNN, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 361
Pages: 833–834

Head Matter:
Rafaela GONZALEZ-RIOS, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 05-76935.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Dec. 9, 2009.
Filed Jan. 7, 2010.
Martin Avila Robles, Immigration Practice Group, A Professional Corporation, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner.
Carol Federighi, Esquire, Senior Litigation Counsel, Don George Scroggin, Esquire, Trial, M. Jocelyn Lopez Wright, OIL, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: SCHROEDER and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges, and LYNN, District Judge.
The Honorable Barbara Lynn, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Rafaela Gonzalez-Rios is a native and citizen of Mexico who petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") decision denying her application for a waiver of her deportability as an aggravated felon. See INS v. St. Cyr, 533 U.S. 289, 295, 121 S.Ct. 2271, 150 L.Ed.2d 347 (2001) (citing the former 8 U.S.C. § 1182(c)). The record reflects she was never granted lawful permanent resident ("LPR") status, but she contends the government should be estopped from denying that she has LPR status for purposes of determining eligibility for the waiver. We have jurisdiction to review the estoppel issues. See Ramadan v. Gonzales, 479 F.3d 646, 648 (9th Cir.2007) (holding REAL ID Act restored jurisdiction over mixed questions of law and fact).
. On the merits, however, Gonzalez-Rios' estoppel arguments fail. She was aware at all times that the government had never granted her applications for adjustment of status and that she had failed to post the bond the government requested in 1989 in order to process her application; traditional equitable estoppel requirements are therefore not met. See Salgado-Diaz v. Gonzales, 395 F.3d 1158, 1165-67 (9th Cir. 2005). She also cannot establish the affirmative misconduct required to estop the government. Delay alone is not sufficient, INS v. Miranda, 459 U.S. 14, 18, 103 S.Ct. 281, 74 L.Ed.2d 12 (1982); Jaa v. INS, 779 F.2d 569, 572 (9th Cir.1986), and she offers nothing more.
The contention that her parents' status should be imputed to her was never presented to the BIA and is therefore unex-hausted. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(d)(1); Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir.2004).
The petition for review is DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.