United States First Circuit

The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) properly dismissed petitioner's appeal of an Immigration Judge's (IJ) order denying his applications for relief from removal, where: 1) the BIA erred in concluding that the REAL ID Act applied to petitioner's case but that error did not affect the case; 2) petitioner fails to establish past persecution based on the deprivation of his ability to father more children; and 3) petitioner did not establish a well founded fear of future persecution in response to either his resistance to China's coercive population control program or his illegal departure.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/20/2013
• Published 12/20/2013

Judges

• TORRUELLA

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel