United States First Circuit

In an immigration proceeding, petition for review of a final order of removal is denied where: 1) petitioner was not entitled to withholding of removal because she has not shown that it is more likely than not she would be persecuted were she to return to her country; 2) petitioner's argument that she is a member of a social group of people with mental illness requiring treatment cannot be addressed because she failed to raise that argument before the IJ; and 3) a remand to the IJ, based on newly produced certificate from Armenian Embassy stating that petitioner's son is not an Armenian citizen, was unwarranted.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/23/2008
• Published 07/23/2008

Judges

• LYNCH, Chief Judge., Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge, HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Igor Freyman, Mulvey, Sneider & Freyman, PC, Susanna L. Shafer, and Law Office of Susanna L Shafer on brief for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kathryn L. Deangelis, Trial Attorney, Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Terri J. Scadron, Assistant Director, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.