United States Ninth Circuit

Petition for review from a denial of asylum is denied where the BIA, in applying a provision of the Real ID Act of 2005 imposing a new evidentiary burden on asylum applicants, properly denied asylum to petitioner who claimed she was the victim of religious and ethnic persecution in Kazakhstan.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/14/2008
• Decided 07/24/2008
• Published 07/24/2008

Judges

• O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges, and JAMES V. SELNA, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Saad Ahmad, Esq., Saad Ahmad & Associates, Fremont, CA, argued the cause for the petitioner and filed a brief;  Robert L. Volz, Esq., Saad Ahmad & Associates, Fremont, CA, was on the brief.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sarah Maloney, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, argued the cause for the respondent and filed a brief;  James E. Grimes, Senior Litigation Counsel, and Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, were on the brief.