United States Second Circuit

Denial of applications for asylum and withholding of removal, based on IJ's oral decision, is vacated as there is no agency determination on the protectibility of a social group composed of affluent Guatemalans, who claim to suffer persecution fueled by class rivalry in an impoverished society.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/10/2006
• Published 05/10/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before:  JACOBS, Chief Judge, WALKER and WALLACE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roberto Tschudin Lucheme, Glastonbury, CT, for Petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Francis W. Fraser, Margaret Perry, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.