Legal Opinion
Ahmed v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 13, 2010No. 09-2085PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The petitioners, Usman Ahmed and Afsheen Iqbal Butt, are Pakistani nationals. They seek judicial review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying their applications for withholding of removal and protection under the United Nations Convention Against Torture (CAT). Discerning no error, we deny the petition.
The facts are straightforward. In January of 1997, Ahmed entered the United States on an F-l student visa and began attending school in New Hampshire. He returned to Pakistan for roughly two weeks in early 1999 and married Butt. The newlyweds…
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