Case: 18-14409 Date Filed: 07/22/2019 Page: 1 of 4 [DO NOT PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 18-14409 Non-Argument Calendar ________________________ Agency No. A208-605-620 ANADELI SILVAS RUIZ, Petitioner, versus U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Respondent. ________________________ Petition for Review of a Decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ________________________ (July 22, 2019) Before ED CARNES, Chief Judge, WILSON, and HULL, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: Anadeli Silvas Ruiz, a native and citizen of Mexico, seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ final order affirming the immigration judge’s Case: 18-14409 Date Filed: 07/22/2019 Page: 2 of 4 denial of her application for asylum and withholding of removal. 1 The immigration judge denied her application on the ground that her testimony at the removal hearing was not credible. It also denied her application on the grounds that she failed to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution, or that any past or feared persecution would be on account of a protected ground.2 Ruiz appealed the immigration judge’s decision to the Board. The only issue she raised in her notice of appeal was about the immigration judge’s credibility finding. In her notice of appeal she checked “No” to a question asking whether she “intend[ed] to file a separate written brief . . . after filing” the notice. She did not file a brief with the Board. The Board issued a final order affirming the immigration judge’s denial. In its order the Board assumed that Ruiz was credible but agreed with the immigration judge that she did not establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution, or that any past or feared persecution would be on 1 Ruiz included four of her children as riders on her asylum application. See 8 U.S.C. § 1158(b)(3)(A). 2 To establish asylum eligibility an “alien must, with credible evidence, establish (1) past persecution on account of a protected ground, or (2) a well-founded fear that a protected ground will cause future persecution.” Sama v. U.S. Att’y Gen., 887 F.3d 1225, 1231 (11th Cir. 2018) (quotation marks, brackets, and ellipses omitted). 2 Case: 18-14409 Date Filed: 07/22/2019 Page: 3 of 4 account of a protected ground. Ruiz seeks review of the Board’s order, contending that she has been and will be persecuted on account of a protected ground. We are “under a duty to review [our] jurisdiction of an appeal at any point in the appellate process and we review our subject matter jurisdiction de novo.” Jara v. Núñez, 878 F.3d 1268, 1271 (11th Cir. 2018) (quotation marks, citations, and brackets omitted). We “may review a final order of removal only if . . . the alien has exhausted all administrative remedies available to the alien as of right.” 8 U.S.C. § 1252(d)(1). As a result, we lack jurisdiction to consider claims that an alien raises for the first time on appeal. Sundar v. INS, 328 F.3d 1320, 1323 (11th Cir. 2003) (“[W]e lack jurisdiction to consider claims ...
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