Legal Opinion
Ratnasingam v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 12, 2009No. 08-1242, 08-1531PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
Rammeash Ratnasingam, a native and citizen of Sri Lanka, petitions this court for review both of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) denying him relief from removal and of an order denying his motion to reopen.
On January 31, 2008, the BIA affirmed the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of Ratnasingam’s applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”), all based on his alleged persecution as an ethnic Tamil by the majority Sinhalese ethnic group. Ratnasingam’s later motion to reopen, which argued that…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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3Cited by23 opinions
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