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New “Particular Social Group” Decision from the BIA

By immigrationprof

The BIA today issued an interim decision in In re A-M-E & J-G-U-, 24 I&N Dec. 69 (BIA 2007).  According to the syllabus, the Board ruled as follows:

(1) Factors to be considered in determining whether a particular social group exists include whether the group’s shared characteristic gives the members the requisite social visibility to make them readily identifiable in society and whether the group can be defined with sufficient particularity to delimit its membership.

(2) The respondents failed to establish that their status as affluent Guatemalans gave them sufficient social visibility to be perceived as a group by society or that the group was defined with adequate particularity to constitute a particular social group.

Click here for the decision.

KJ