United States First Circuit

Petition for review of a denial of an application for asylum and withholding of removal is denied where the court lacks jurisdiction over the petitioners' asylum application because the BIA's timeliness determination is not reviewable, and petitioners had not established past persecution or a likelihood of future persecution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/27/2007
• Published 09/27/2007

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, LYNCH, and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Randall A. Drew, for petitioner., Kohsei Ugumori, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Peter Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, and Michelle


• For Appellees:
  
• Gorden Latour, Assistant Director, for respondent.