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Petitioner sought review of an order dismissing their appeal from the decision of an Immigration Judge that denied petitioners’ request for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture, and from the denial of their motion to ...

Tagged with: asylum Motion to Reopen Proceedings Withholding of Removal

Where a petitioner from Mexico sought review of orders of removal and the denial of his motion to reopen proceedings, the petitions are denied because the determination that the petitioner was not entitled to cancellation of removal was a discretionary ...

Tagged with: Cancellation Removal

Where a petitioner challenged the denial of asylum and the withholding of removal, the immigration judge’s adverse credibility determination was sufficiently supported, so the petition is denied. Petition denied. Samolu v. Barr (MLW No. 74018/Case No. 18-3303 – 7 pages) ...

Tagged with: asylum Credibility Determination

Where a petitioner from Guatemala sought review of an order denying her motion to reopen her removal proceedings, the petition for review is denied because the Board of Immigration did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion. Petition for ...

Tagged with: motion to reopen Removal

Petitioner petitioned for review of the Bureau of Immigration Appeals’ decision finding petitioner ineligible for cancellation of removal because he had sustained a prior conviction for a crime involving moral turpitude. Petitioner, who had entered the country illegally, had pleaded ...

Tagged with: Cancellation Of Removal Crime Involving Moral Turpitude theft

Where a petitioner from Guatemala sought review of the dismissal of her appeal from a decision of the immigration judge denying her request for asylum, substantial evidence supported the determination that she was not entitled to asylum because she did ...

Tagged with: Denial Of Asylum Persecution

Petitioner petitioned for review of the Bureau of Immigration Appeals’ order that dismissed petitioner’s appeal of an immigration judge’s decision denying petitioner asylum, withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture. Where petitioner failed to show he was ...

Tagged with: asylum Evidence of Persecution Withholding of Removal

Petitioner sought review of the denial of her request for asylum and withholding of removal. An immigration judge concluded that, while petitioner’s allegations about her time in her native Honduras were credible, she failed to show that the government is ...

Tagged with: asylum Credible Fear of Persecution Withholding of Removal

Petitioner, a citizen of Mexico, filed an application in 1988 for temporary resident status as a special agricultural worker. Petitioner filed an appeal from the denial of his application due to missing information. The Administrative Appeals office denied petitioner’s appeal ...

Tagged with: Denial of Appeal Equitable Tolling Special Agricultural Worker

Where a petitioner from Kenya argued that the Board of Immigration Appeals erred in failing to treat his motion to reopen as unopposed, the denial of an unopposed motion is not presumptively an abuse of discretion, so the board did ...

Tagged with: Equitable Tolling motion to reopen

The Department of Homeland Security determined petitioner was removable after concluding petitioner had been convicted in Iowa of committing an aggravated felony. Petitioner argued that his Iowa conviction was not an aggravated felony and that DHS violated his due process ...