Jean Djindjeu Nkwendja v. Michael Mukasey

Filing 920080715

Opinion

UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 07-1862

JEAN COLBERT DJINDJEU NKWENDJA, Petitioner, v. MICHAEL B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent.

On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Submitted:

June 20, 2008

Decided:

July 15, 2008

Before WILKINSON, NIEMEYER, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.

Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Peter Nyoh, PETER NYOH AND ASSOCIATES, Silver Spring, Maryland, for Petitioner. Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Mark C. Walters, Assistant Director, W. Manning Evans, OFFICE OF IMMIGRATION LITIGATION, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

PER CURIAM: Jean Colbert Djindjeu Nkwendja, a native and citizen of Cameroon, petitions Appeals for review of an order opinion of the Board of

Immigration

affirming

without

the

Immigration

Judge's denial of his applications for relief from removal. Nkwendja first challenges the determination that he

failed to establish eligibility for asylum.

To obtain reversal of

a determination denying eligibility for relief, an alien "must show that the evidence he presented was so compelling that no reasonable factfinder could fail to find the requisite fear of persecution." INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 483-84 (1992). We have

reviewed the evidence of record and conclude that Nkwendja fails to show that the evidence compels a contrary result. Having failed to qualify for asylum, Nkwendja cannot meet the more stringent

standard for withholding of removal.

Chen v. INS, 195 F.3d 198,

205 (4th Cir. 1999); INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca, 480 U.S. 421, 430 (1987). Accordingly, we deny the petition for review. We

dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

PETITION DENIED

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