Legal Opinion
A-B
Board of Immigration Appeals
Decided July 1, 2018No. ID 3929PublishedCited by 157 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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27 I&N Dec. 316
(A.G. 2018) Interim Decision #3929 Matter of A-B-, Respondent Decided by Attorney General June 11, 2018 U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General (1) Matter of A-R-C-G-,
26 I&N Dec. 338
(BIA 2014) is overruled. That decision was wrongly decided and should not have been issued as a precedential decision. (2) An applicant seeking to establish persecution on account of membership in a “particular social group” must demonstrate: (1) membership in a group, which is composed of members who share a common immutable characteristic, is defined with particularity,…
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