United States Ninth Circuit

Petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) order removing Petitioner from the U.S. is denied where: 1) refusal to join a gang did not make Petitioner a member of a particular social group or constitute a political opinion; and 2) a minor who seeks relief as a derivative under the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act must personally satisfy the Act's requirement of seven years of continuous physical presence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/27/2009
• Published 05/27/2009

Judges

• Before:  JEROME FARRIS, SUSAN P. GRABER, and KIM McLANE WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Areg Kazaryan, Law Offices of Areg Kazaryan, Glendale, CA, for petitioner Angel Wilfredo Ramos Barrios.


• For Appellees:
  
• John W. Blakely, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for respondent Attorney General Holder.