In re C-A-

Author: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Board of Immigration Appeals
Document source:

United States Board of Immigration Appeals
Date:
15 June 2006

In this section

Appeal dismissed.

Author

U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Board of Immigration Appeals

Title

In re C-A-

Document source

United States Board of Immigration Appeals

Date

15 June 2006

Document number

23 I&N Dec. 951 (BIA 2006)

Document type

Additional document information

Interim Decision #3535

Collection

Country

United States of America (the)

Colombia

Keywords

Deportation / Forcible return

Non-state agents of persecution

Social group persecution

Comments:

(1) The members of a particular social group must share a common, immutable characteristic, which may be an innate one, such as sex, color, or kinship ties, or a shared past experience, such as former military leadership or land ownership, but it must be one that members of the group either cannot change, or should not be required to change, because it is fundamental to their individual identities or consciences. Matter of Acosta, 19 I&N Dec. 211(BIA 1985), followed.
(2) The social visibility of the members of a claimed social group is an important consideration in identifying the existence of a 'particular social group' for the purpose of determining whether a person qualifies as a refugee. (3) The group of 'former noncriminal drug informants working against the Cali drug cartel' does not have the requisite social visibility to constitute a 'particular social group.'

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