United States First Circuit

Petition for review of the denial of applications for asylum, withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture is denied where, although a regulation excluding weekends and holidays from the one year filing deadline for asylum applications does not say that it operates only as to applications filed by hand, petitioners' application was insufficient since it did not demonstrate a well-grounded fear of future persecution and they did not show that the IJ compromised the fairness of the hearing and violated their due process rights.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/24/2008
• Published 01/24/2008

Judges

• BOUDIN, Chief Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL and STAHL, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gregory Marotta and Law Office of Gregory Marotta on brief for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Rebecca A. Niburg, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Department of Justice, Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Jeffrey J. Bernstein, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.