JOSE ALFARO-AREVANO, AKA Jose Miguel Alfaro, AKA Jesus Alfaro- Arevalo, AKA Jesus… v. LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
JOSE ALFARO-AREVANO, AKA Jose
Miguel Alfaro, AKA Jesus Alfaro-
Arevalo, AKA Jesus Manuel Alfaro-
Arevano,
Petitioner,
v.
LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General,
Respondent.
No. 15-71917
Agency No. A077-190-788
MEMORANDUM*
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted December 14, 2016**
Before: WALLACE, LEAVY, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.
Jose Alfaro-Arevano, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions pro se for
review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from an
immigration judge’s decision denying his request for administrative closure and
FILED
DEC 23 2016
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

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denying his application for cancellation of removal. We dismiss the petition for
review.
We lack jurisdiction to review the agency’s denial of administrative closure.
See Diaz-Covarrubias v. Mukasey, 551 F.3d 1114, 1120 (9th Cir. 2009) (this court
lacks jurisdiction to review the denial of administrative closure for lack of a
sufficiently meaningful standard to evaluate the decision).
To the extent Alfaro-Arevano challenges the agency’s denial of cancellation
of removal, we lack jurisdiction to review the discretionary determination that
Alfaro-Arevano failed to show the requisite exceptional and extremely unusual
hardship to a qualifying relative. See Martinez-Rosas v. Gonzales, 424 F.3d 926,
930 (9th Cir. 2005).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED.
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