OLIVA v. LYNCH

No. 14-1780.

807 F.3d 53 (2015)

Vladimir Ernesto Ortega OLIVA, a/k/a Vladimir Ernesto Ortega Olivia, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: November 25, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Jean Zhuang , University of Virginia Law School, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Petitioner. Margaret Judson Perry , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. ON BRIEF: Stephen L. Braga , Attorney Director, Kelsey Bryan , Third Year Law Student, Rachel Wade , Third Year Law Student, Appellate Litigation Clinic, Doug Ford , Attorney Director, Sarah Allen , Third Year Law Student, Immigration Clinic, University of Virginia Law School, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Petitioner. Joyce R. Branda , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Michelle LaTour , Deputy Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Petition for review granted; order reversed in part, vacated in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge WYNN wrote the opinion, in which Judge DIAZ and Senior Judge DAVIS joined.


Vladimir Ernesto Ortega Oliva, a native and citizen of El Salvador, sought asylum and withholding of removal under the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA"). The Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") denied his petition, affirming the immigration judge's ("IJ's") determination that Oliva did not demonstrate a nexus between...

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