Economic Persecution Decisions – Board of Immigration Appeals
This article examines how the BIA has handled economic persecution claims, and its use of the Matter of T-Z-, Dunat, and Acosta standards
This article examines how the BIA has handled economic persecution claims, and its use of the Matter of T-Z-, Dunat, and Acosta standards
President Donald Trump set the refugee admissions cap for FY 2018 at no more than 45,000 refugees. We discuss the new refugee admissions cap in this article.
In Matter of N-A-I-, the Board held that asylee adjustment under 209(b) constitutes the termination of asylee status. This means INA 208(c) protections no longer apply.
The BIA held that even in the Third Circuit, an untimely asylum application can be found to be a frivolous asylum application if misrepresentation was made regarding timeliness.
The BIA issued an amicus invitation to ask for briefs answering the question of whether there is a duress exception to the persecutor bar to asylum and withholding of removal.
In the Matter of J.M. Alvarado, the Board held that an alien’s personal motivation is irrelevant to the question of whether the persecutor bar applies.
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