Immigration: Asylum-Fear of Future Persecution-Political Persecution

Staff Report//March 13, 2020//

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Petitioner challenged the order of the Board of Immigration Appeals, which reversed the ruling of an immigration judge who ruled that petitioner, a Nigerian citizen, had a well-founded fear of future persecution and granted petitioner’s application for asylum.

Where threats petitioner had received were unrelated to his political opinions and where petitioner had family in high government positions, the BIA did not err in concluding that petitioner had failed to meet his burden of proof to show a particularized fear of future political persecution.

Petition is denied.

Uzodinma v. Barr (MLW No. 74650/Case No. 18-3437 – 8 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Benton) Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals. (Abyan Gurase, Law Student Attorney of Minneapolis, MN supervised by Benjamin Casper Sanchez of Minneapolis, MN for petitioner; Law Student Attorney Michelle Cardona Vinasco of Minneapolis Minnesota, supervised by Benjamin Casper Sanchez of Minneapolis, MN, Luis Cortes Romero of Kent, WA, and Alma David of Kent, WA on brief) (Dawn S. Conrad, of Washington, DC on brief)

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