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                              NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           MAY 25 2012

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

                              FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

GYU SEON OH; et al.,                             No. 09-74006

               Petitioners,                      Agency Nos. A098-666-025
                                                             A098-666-026
  v.                                                         A098-666-027
                                                             A098-666-028
ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General,

               Respondent.                       MEMORANDUM *

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

                              Submitted May 15, 2012 **

Before:        CANBY, GRABER, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.

       Gyu Seon Oh, Eun Jeong Oh Kim and their children, natives and citizens of

South Korea, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”)

order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying

their request for a continuance. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252.

          *
             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).
We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a continuance and review de novo

due process claims. Sandoval-Luna v. Mukasey, 526 F.3d 1243, 1246 (9th Cir.

2008) (per curiam). We deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.

      The IJ did not abuse her discretion in denying petitioners’ request for a

continuance where petitioners did not show that they were eligible for any relief

other than voluntary departure and did not demonstrate good cause for a

continuance. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.29 (an immigration judge may grant a motion to

continue for good cause shown); see also Sandoval-Luna, 526 F.3d at 1247 (IJ’s

denial of an additional continuance was within discretion where relief was not

immediately available to petitioner). It follows that their due process challenge to

the IJ’s denial fails. See Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1246 (9th Cir. 2000) (“To

prevail on a due process challenge to deportation proceedings, [a petitioner] must

show error and substantial prejudice.”).

      We lack jurisdiction to consider petitioners’ contention that the IJ violated

their right to due process by failing to further question them regarding their

eligibility for asylum because they failed to exhaust this contention before the BIA.

See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir. 2004) (no jurisdiction over

claims not presented below).

      PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; DISMISSED in part.

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