MEMORANDUM **

California prisoner Randy Robert Bran-son appeals pro se the district court’s judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against prison officials for failure to exhaust administrative remedies. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo, Wyatt v. Terhune, 315 F.3d 1108, 1117 (9th Cir. 2003), and we affirm.

It is clear from the pleadings that Bran-son failed to exhaust available administrative remedies prior to filing suit. Therefore the district court properly dismissed Branson’s action without prejudice. See Wyatt, at 1118. The pre-filing exhaustion requirement is not excused by the prison’s *320allegedly dilatory administrative procedures, see Porter v. Nussle, 534 U.S. 516, 524, 122 S.Ct. 983, 152 L.Ed.2d 12 (2002); see also 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a), or cured by the filing of an amended complaint, see McKinney v. Carey, 311 F.3d 1198, 1199 (9th Cir. 2002) (per curiam).

AFFIRMED.