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Petitioner's Brief in CA5 Case No. 21-60314 "Petitioner, Daniel Girmai Negusie, petitions this Court to review and reverse the Board of Immigration Appeals’s decision affirming the Attorney General’s decision in Matter of Negusie...

Duke Law, Aug. 12, 2021 "Duke Law School’s Immigrant Rights Clinic filed amicus curiae briefs before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals last week on behalf of a group of international refugee law scholars and the American Immigration Lawyers...

Matter of Negusie, 28 I&N Dec. 399 (A.G. 2021) - "Pursuant to 8 C.F.R. § 1003.1(h)(1)(i), I direct the Board of Immigration Appeals (“Board”) to refer this case to me for review of its decision. The Board’s decision in...

Matter of Negusie, 28 I&N Dec. 120 (A.G. 2020) (1) The bar to eligibility for asylum and withholding of removal based on the persecution of others does not include an exception for coercion or duress. (2) The Department of Homeland Security does...

Matter of Negusie, 27 I&N Dec. 481 (A.G. 2018) "Pursuant to 8 C.F.R. § 1003.1(h)(1)(i) (2018), I direct the Board of Immigration Appeals (“Board”) to refer this case to me for review of its decision. The Board’s decision...

Matter of Negusie, 27 I&N Dec. 347 (BIA 2018) (1) An applicant who is subject to being barred from establishing eligibility for asylum or withholding of removal based on the persecution of others may claim a duress defense, which is limited in nature...

Prof. Kate Evans, Oct. 2017 - "In Negusie v. Holder, 555 U.S. 511 (2009) the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed whether the persecutor bar for asylum and withholding of removal should be interpreted to contain an exception for conduct performed under duress...

BIA, Aug. 8, 2016 - "The Board of Immigration Appeals welcomes interested members of the public to file amicus curiae briefs discussing the below issues: ISSUES PRESENTED: 1) Whether an involuntariness or duress exception exists to limit the...