USCA11 Case: 21-14297 Document: 32-1 Date Filed: 05/05/2023 Page: 1 of 14 [DO NOT PUBLISH] In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit ____________________ No. 21-14297 Non-Argument Calendar ____________________ DERONG WANG, Petitioner, versus U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Respondent. ____________________ Petition for Review of a Decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals Agency No. A205-038-417 ____________________ USCA11 Case: 21-14297 Document: 32-1 Date Filed: 05/05/2023 Page: 2 of 14 2 Opinion of the Court 21-14297 Before BRANCH, LAGOA, and BRASHER, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: Derong Wang, a native and citizen of China, seeks review of the final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his application for cancellation of removal under the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”). Wang argues that the IJ did not sufficiently consider the evidence he submitted to show that his children would suffer exceptional and extremely unusual hardship (“EEUH”), that the IJ erred by finding he had a possible alternative means of obtaining status in the United States, and that the BIA failed to give reasoned consideration to his claim of hardship. Because we lack jurisdiction over some of Wang’s arguments and the rest lack merit, we dismiss Wang’s petition for review in part and deny it in part. I. Background Wang entered the United States without inspection on September 15, 1999. In 2012, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) served Wang with a notice to appear, charging him as removable under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(6)(A)(i), “as an alien present in the United States without being admitted or paroled.” Wang conceded the charge of removability and applied for cancellation of removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b)(1), claiming that his removal would result in EEUH to his children, who are United States citizens. USCA11 Case: 21-14297 Document: 32-1 Date Filed: 05/05/2023 Page: 3 of 14 21-14297 Opinion of the Court 3 At a hearing on Wang’s application for cancellation of removal, Wang testified that he moved to New York after entering the United States in 1999. He lived in New York until 2015, when he moved to Georgia for his then-girlfriend Xia You. The two had met in 2007, and Wang explained that Xia moved to New York for a brief period in 2008 but moved back to Georgia later that year. From 2008 to 2015, Wang lived in New York while Xia lived in Georgia, although they would reunite for visits. During that time, Xia worked part-time at a Chinese restaurant. Xia purchased the restaurant in 2012. After Wang moved to Georgia, he married Xia three years later. Wang testified that he has one biological daughter, who was born in May 2008, and one adopted daughter, who was born in January 2005. 1 Both of Wang’s daughters were born in New York, and they are both United States citizens. Now, Wang and Xia operate the restaurant together and are the restaurant’s only employees. Wang works as the cook and is “mainly responsible for the kitchen in the back,” …
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