Legal Opinion
Khagendra Sharma v. Eric Holder, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 30, 2013No. 12-60547PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES E. GRAVES, JR., Circuit Judge:
Nepalese citizen Khagendra Sharma petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b) and the Convention Against Torture (CAT), arguing that he had been subjected to past persecution and feared future persecution in Nepal based on his political opinion and membership in a particular social group, the Nepal Student Union (NSU). Because we find that the Immigration Judge (IJ) and BIA incorrectly required Sharma to produce direct proof of the nexus between his…
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