NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS DEC 7 2021 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT RICHART CENTENO-SOTELO, No. 16-73958 Petitioner, BIA A200-806-639 v. MEMORANDUM* MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney General, Respondent. Appeal from the Board of Immigration Appeals Submitted November 19, 2021** San Francisco, California Before: McKEOWN and GOULD, Circuit Judges, and MOLLOY,*** District Judge. Richart Centeno-Sotelo, a non-citizen, failed to appear at his removal hearing and was ordered removed in absentia. He now petitions for review of the * 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). *** The Honorable Donald W. Molloy, United States District Judge for the District of Montana, sitting by designation. 1 Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his motion to reopen the in absentia order of removal on two grounds: (1) he did not receive constitutionally sufficient notice, and (2) the Immigration Service failed to provide statutorily required notice. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 and deny the petition for review. I. In removal proceedings, due process “requires that notice be sufficient to advise aliens of the pendency of the [removal] action and afford them an opportunity to present their objections.” Khan v. Ashcroft, 374 F.3d 825, 828 (9th Cir. 2004) (internal quotation marks omitted). It does not require actual notice; “[r]ather, due process is satisfied if service is conducted in a manner ‘reasonably calculated’ to ensure that notice reaches the alien.” Farhoud v. I.N.S., 122 F.3d 794, 796 (9th Cir. 1997). The Notice to Appear (“NTA”) Centeno-Sotelo received on the day he was released from custody meets this standard. That NTA was personally served on him, listed his address as on Bonanza Street, and Centeno- Sotelo signed it. II. The notice provided here is also sufficient because Centeno-Sotelo did not satisfy the obligation to provide a compliant address as required by the statute, which obviated the Immigration Service’s duty to provide written notice under 8 2 U.S.C. § 1229a(b)(5)(A). “The immigration statutes governing notice do three things: (1) [t]hey create a right to notice; (2) [t]hey create an exception to that right for aliens who do not fulfill two simple obligations; and (3) [t]hey describe those obligations.” Velasquez-Escovar v. Holder, 768 F.3d 1000, 1003 (9th Cir. 2014). Pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(b)(5)(B), “[n]o written notice shall be required under subparagraph (A) if the alien has failed to provide the address required under section 1229(a)(1)(F) of this title.” See Al Mutarreb v. Holder, 561 F.3d 1023, 1026–27 (9th Cir. 2009) (explaining that the Immigration Service has no obligation to provide notice until a compliant address has been provided). Accordingly, “the alien must immediately provide (or have provided) the Attorney General with a written record of an address and telephone number (if any) …
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