Claudia Grégoire Immigration Law Blog on Lawyers.com

In a recent First Circuit case where immigration lawyers sought to overturn the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) denial of the asylum claim of a Chinese couple, the appeal was denied.  The First Circuit ruled on the petitioners' requests for asylum, withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture that the BIA acted permissibly in finding not credible that the Chinese government had persecuted the wife by forcing her to undergo an abortion in 1991 and the testimony of the husband that he had harassed to undergo sterilization.  Opinion here for immigration and asylum law interest and development.