
    Armando Ruben MURILLO-VASQUEZ, aka Armando R. Murillo, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 09-70098.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Sept. 2, 2009.
    
    Filed Dec. 7, 2009.
    
      Frank P. Sprouls, Esquire, Law Office of Ricci and Sprouls, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner.
    David V. Bernal, Assistant Director, Ana T. Zablah-Monroe, Esquire, Trial, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: HUG, SKOPIL and BEEZER, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Alien Armando Ruben Murillo-Vasquez petitions from the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (“BIA”) decision denying his motion to reopen removal proceedings. We review the BIA’s denial of a motion to reopen for abuse of discretion and will reverse only if its decision is “arbitrary, irrational, or contrary to law.” Singh v. INS, 295 F.3d 1037, 1039 (9th Cir.2002). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(1). We deny Murillo’s petition for review.

The facts of this case are known to the parties. We do not repeat them.

The BIA did not abuse its discretion by denying Murillo’s motion to reopen or by declining to remand for consideration of his asylum application. Murillo bases his motion to reopen on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim. To prove ineffective assistance of counsel, an alien must show “(1) that counsel’s performance was deficient, and (2) that counsel’s deficiency caused prejudice.” Nehad v. Mukasey, 535 F.3d 962, 967 (9th Cir.2008). Prejudice occurs when “counsel’s performance is so inadequate that it may have affected the outcome of the proceedings.” Id. No deficiency that Murillo alleges could have affected the outcome of his proceedings.

An alien seeking asylum must file his or her application “within 1 year after the date of the alien’s arrival in the United States.” 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(2)(B). Murillo does not dispute the fact that he lived in the United States for at least seven years before the initiation of his removal proceedings. Murillo also presents no facts to meet any exception to the above requirement.

DENIED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
     