Posted on May 11, 2020 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The Third Circuit held that people who publicly provide assistance against major Salvadoran gangs constitute a particular social group (PSG) and that the BIA erred in applying Myrie v. Attorney General when it denied the petitioner CAT relief.
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Posted on August 7, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The Third Circuit denied the petition for review and accepted the immigration judge and BIA’s determination that “immediate family members of Honduran women unable to leave a domestic relationship” is not a legally cognizable particular social group.
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Posted on August 7, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Denying the petition to review the BIA’s reversal of the immigration judge’s grant of withholding of removal, the Eighth Circuit upheld the BIA’s finding that “former taxi drivers from Quezaltepeque who have witnessed a gang murder” was not socially distinct and thus could not qualify as a “particular social group.”
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Posted on June 11, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The Fifth Circuit held that the BIA erred both in requiring the asylum petitioner to prove past persecution to establish a claim based on a well-founded fear of future persecution and in recharacterizing the petitioner’s claimed social group.
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Posted on June 8, 2015 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Matter of A-R-C-G- is a great BIA case that shows that women who are victims of domestic violence outside the U.S. have a chance to escape their persecution by coming to the U.S. and applying for asylum based on persecution of a particular social group.
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Posted on June 8, 2015 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Matter of A-R-C-G- is a great BIA case that shows that women who are victims of domestic violence outside the U.S. have a chance to escape their persecution by coming to the U.S. and applying for asylum based on persecution of a particular social group.
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Posted on February 7, 2012 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney