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YUAN v. U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE

Docket Nos. 02-4632-AG, 02-4635-AG.

416 F.3d 192 (2005)

Ai Feng YUAN, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Respondent. Song Qi Huang, Petitioner, v. United States Department of Justice, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 26, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruno Joseph Bembi, Hempstead, NY, for Petitioners.

Debra W. Yang, United States Attorney for the Central District of California, Abraham C. Meltzer, Assistant United States Attorney, Leon W. Weidman, Chief, Civil Division, Gary Plessman, Chief, Civil Fraud Division, United States Attorney, Central District of California, Los Angeles, CA, for Respondent.

Before: MESKILL, NEWMAN and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

MESKILL, Circuit Judge.

By law, immigrants persecuted under coercive family planning policies in their native countries may seek asylum in the United States. So may their spouses. These cases require us to determine whether the parents and parents-in-law of people so persecuted may likewise seek asylum. We hold that they may not: A parent or parent-in-law of a person subject to a coercive family planning policy is not for that reason eligible for asylum. We further...

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