Legal Opinion
Chun Hua Zheng v. Eric H. Holder, J
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 31, 2012No. 11-2322PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner is a Chinese woman who applied for asylum and for withholding of removal on the ground that because of her opposition to China’s “one child” policy she faces persecution if she is returned to China. She applied for asylum seven years after the expiration of the one-year deadline, see 8 C.F.R. § 1208.4(a)(2), and with only the most threadbare of excuses, and so the Board of Immigration Appeals was on solid ground in rejecting her application for asylum.
Her application for withholding of removal, also denied by the Board, remains for consideration. The…
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