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Immigration
[03/09]
Calif. test-taking case shows gap in visa security
[03/09]
Feds: Calif. man ran student visa fraud ring
[03/03]
Ex-UK spy accused of attempting to sell secrets
[02/25]
E-Verify misses half of illegal workers checked
Case Summaries
Immigration Law
[03/09]
Tampubolon v. Holder
In a petition for review of the BIA's denial of petitioners' asylum application, the petition is granted in part where the BIA erred in failing to apply disfavored group analysis to petitioners' withholding claim because the record compelled a finding that Christians in Indonesia are a disfavored group. However, the petition is denied in part where the BIA's failure to address two irrelevant cases did not render the proceeding fundamentally unfair.
[03/09]
Najmabadi v. Holder
In a petition for review of the BIA's order denying petitioner's motion to reopen her removal proceedings on the basis of changed conditions in Iran, the petition is denied where: 1) substantial evidence supported the Board's finding that the evidence petitioner submitted in her motion to reopen was not qualitatively different from the evidence presented at the original hearing; and 2) there was no evidence establishing that returnees from the U.S. would likely face persecution.