Legal Opinion
Hanna Aziz, Also Known as Zahra Mohammed Almosawai v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 1, 2007No. 06-1767PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
Hanna Aziz petitions for review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) affirming an Immigration Judge’s (IJ) denial of her application for asylum, withholding of removal, protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT), and cancellation of removal pursuant to battered spouse provisions added to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). For the reasons stated below, we deny Aziz’s petition.
I. Factual and Procedural Background
Aziz was born to a Shi'ite family in Diwania, Iraq, on June 27, 1969. In 1989,…
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