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FILED
                     UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                         MAR 29 2013

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                            FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT                        U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS

ALVARO YOVANI SANCHEZ-                           No. 09-71753
GARCIA, a.k.a. Alvaro Jovany Sanchez,
                                                 Agency No. A094-461-588
              Petitioner,

  v.                                             ORDER

ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General,

              Respondent.

Before:      CANBY, TROTT, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

       The petition for panel rehearing is granted. The memorandum disposition

filed on November 16, 2012, is withdrawn. An amended memorandum disposition

is being filed concurrently with this order.

       Any additional petition for rehearing shall be filed within 45 days from the

date the amended memorandum disposition is filed.
                                                                           FILED
                              NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           MAR 29 2013

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                     UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                      U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS

                              FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ALVARO YOVANI SANCHEZ-                            No. 09-71753
GARCIA, a.k.a. Alvaro Jovany Sanchez,
                                                  Agency No. A094-461-588
               Petitioner,

  v.                                              MEMORANDUM *

ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General,

               Respondent.

                      On Petition for Review of an Order of the
                          Board of Immigration Appeals

                             Submitted November 13, 2012 **

Before:        CANBY, TROTT, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

       Alvaro Yovani Sanchez-Garcia, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions

for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying his

motion to remand and dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision

          *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
          **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
denying his application for asylum and withholding of removal. Our jurisdiction is

governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence factual findings,

Zehatye v. Gonzales, 453 F.3d 1182, 1184-85 (9th Cir. 2006), and for abuse of

discretion the denial of a motion to remand, de Jesus Melendez v. Gonzales, 503
F.3d 1019, 1023 (9th Cir. 2007). We deny in part and dismiss in part the petition

for review.

      Substantial evidence supports the agency’s finding that Sanchez-Garcia did

not demonstrate past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution on

account of a protected ground. See INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481-82

(1992); Parussimova v. Mukasey, 555 F.3d 734, 740 (9th Cir. 2009) (“[t]he Real

ID Act requires that a protected ground represent ‘one central reason’ for an

asylum applicant’s persecution”). Accordingly, Sanchez-Garcia’s asylum and

withholding of removal claims fail. See Ochoa v. Gonzales, 406 F.3d 1166, 1172

(9th Cir. 2005).

      The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Sanchez-Garcia’s request to

remand to consider his claim for cancellation of removal because he did not

demonstrate prima facie eligibility for that form of relief. See Fernandez v.

Gonzales, 439 F.3d 592, 599 (9th Cir. 2006). We lack jurisdiction to review

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Sanchez-Garcia’s contentions related to hardship because he failed to raise this

issue to the BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir. 2004).

      Further, we deny Sanchez-Garcia’s motion for judicial notice of the

declaration by his wife and do not consider the additional documents he submitted

with his opening brief because they are not part of the administrative record. See

Fisher v. INS, 79 F.3d 955, 963 (9th Cir. 1996) (en banc) (this court’s review is

limited to the administrative record). In light of our conclusions, we deny the

government’s motion to strike as unnecessary.

      Finally, we deny Sanchez-Garcia’s request for a remand to consider a new

grant of voluntary departure.

      PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; DISMISSED in part.

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