Decision date: 2022-02-03

Reversing the Board of Immigration Appeals' denial of asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture based on the intervening decision in Matter of L-E-A- III. Holding that the Board erred in rejecting Luna-Deportillo's family-based particular social group for lack of social distinction and circularity.

Publication Status: Unpublished

Case judge: Quattlebaum, Traxler, Wilkinson

Decision: Luna-Deportillo v. Garland, No. 20-1986, 2022 WL 327003 (4th Cir. Feb. 3 2022)