Alesia Kazakevich v. Loretta E. Lynch

MEMORANDUM **

Alesia Kazakevich, a native of the former USSR and a citizen of Belarus, petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) upholding the Immigration Judge’s (“D”) denial of her applications for asylum -and withholding of removal 1 . We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 and deny the petition.

1. The BIA properly upheld the Immigration Judge’s denial of Kazakevich’s application for asylum. Kazakevich entered the United States on May 31, 2001 and filed her asylum application in August 2003. The Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) requires an…