Immigration – Asylum

By: Derek Hawkins//August 13, 2019//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: N.Y.C.C. v. William P. Barr

Case No.: 18-2618

Officials: EASTERBROOK, KANNE, and SCUDDER, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Immigration – Asylum

To obtain asylum in the United States, N.Y.C.C. needed to establish that she has faced past persecution or harbors a well-founded fear of future persecution based on her membership in a particular social group. An immigration judge determined that she fell short of making this showing and denied her application. The Board of Immigration Appeals agreed. N.Y.C.C. has now sought our review, and she faces the difficult burden of showing that the record compels a different result. Seeing nothing in the record that required the immigration judge (or the Board) to conclude that N.Y.C.C. experienced past persecution or reasonably fears future persecution, we deny her petition.

Petition Denied

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Derek A Hawkins is trademark corporate counsel for Harley-Davidson. Hawkins oversees the prosecution and maintenance of the Harley-Davidson’s international trademark portfolio in emerging markets.

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