MEMORANDUM **

Octavio Vazquez Plaza, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his motion to reopen. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen, Garcia v. Holder, 621 F.3d 906, 912 (9th Cir. 2010), and we deny the petition for review.

The BIA did not abuse its discretion by dismissing Vazquez Plaza’s appeal from the IJ’s denial of his motion to reopen on the ground that he did not demonstrate prima facie eligibility for relief under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(h)(1)(B), where he failed to provide sufficient evidence of the hardship that would be faced by his new qualifying relatives in the event of his removal. See Malty v. Ashcroft, 381 F.3d 942, 947-48 (9th Cir. 2004) (petitioner demonstrates pri-ma facie eligibility for relief countenancing reopening where the evidence reveals a reasonable likelihood that the statutory re *578 quirements for relief have been satisfied); 8 U.S.C. § 1182(h)(1)(B) (listing hardship to qualifying relatives as statutory requirement for relief).

Because the BIA dismissed Vazquez Plaza’s appeal on the ground that he failed to demonstrate prima facie eligibility for relief, it did not err by declining to reach the IJ’s alternative, discretionary ground for denial of the motion to reopen. See INS v. Doherty, 502 U.S. 314, 323, 112 S.Ct. 719, 116 L.Ed.2d 823 (1992) (listing three grounds upon which the agency may deny a motion to reopen).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.