8 C.F.R. §1208.15 - Definition of "firm resettlement."

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  • Hussam F. v. Sessions, 17-3641
    • United States
    • United States Courts of Appeals. United States Court of Appeals (6th Circuit)
    • July 27, 2018
    ...first because Petitioner was not eligible for asylum due to his being "firmly resettled" in Yemen, see 8 U.S.C. § 1158(b)(2)(A)(vi) ; 8 C.F.R. § 1208.15, and second because, regardless of whether Petitioner was firmly resettled, the Board would deny asylum as a matter of its discretion for ......
  • Hanna v. Holder, 12–4272.
    • United States
    • United States Courts of Appeals. United States Court of Appeals (6th Circuit)
    • March 7, 2014
    ...States. The BIA held that, once the government met its initial burden, the burden shifted to Hanna to establish an exception under 8 C.F.R. § 1208.15(a) or (b) and that Hanna had not successfully rebutted the government's firm resettlement showing. Further, the BIA rejected Hanna's claim th......
  • Mercado-Zazueta v. Holder, 07-71428.
    • United States
    • United States Courts of Appeals. United States Court of Appeals (9th Circuit)
    • September 8, 2009
    ...430 F.3d at 1024; see also, e.g., Vang v. INS, 146 F.3d 1114, 1116-17(9th Cir.1998) (imputing a parent's "firm resettlement" under 8 C.F.R. § 1208.15 to a sixteen-year-old minor); Senica v. INS, 16 F.3d 1013, 1015-16 (9th Cir.1994) (imputing a parent's knowledge of ineligibility for admissi......
  • Pangea Legal Servs. v. U.S. Dep't of Homeland Sec.
    • United States
    • United States District Courts. 9th Circuit. United States District Courts. 9th Circuit. Northern District of California
    • January 8, 2021
    ...are substantively identical in key respects. See, e.g. , 8 C.F.R. §§ 208.1(e), 1208.1(e) (defining "persecution"); 8 C.F.R. §§ 208.15, 1208.15 (standards for deciding whether an alien is ineligible for asylum due to being "firmly resettled" in another country). In many instances, DOJ regula......
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