Ayad Geris v. Eric Holder, Jr.
Filing
920100106
UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 09-1219
AYAD RAMZI GERIS; FATEN MOUSSA MOUSSA; GEORGE AYAD GERIS; TONY AYAD GERIS; AMIRA AYAD GERIS, Petitioners, v. ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., Attorney General, Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals.
Submitted:
December 17, 2009
Decided:
January 6, 2010
Before MICHAEL and KING, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.
Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Theodore N. Cox, New York, New York, for Petitioners. Tony West, Assistant Attorney General, Michelle Gorden Latour, Assistant Director, Brendan P. Hogan, OFFICE OF IMMIGRATION LITIGATION, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM: Ayad Ramzi Geris, * a native and citizen of Egypt,
petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals affirming the Immigration Judge's denial of his
applications for relief from removal. Geris challenges the determination that he failed to establish eligibility denying for asylum. To for obtain reversal an alien of a
determination
eligibility
relief,
"must
show that the evidence he presented was so compelling that no reasonable factfinder could fail to find the requisite fear of persecution." (1992). INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 483-84
We have reviewed the evidence of record and conclude
that Geris fails to show that the evidence compels a contrary result. Having failed to qualify for asylum, Geris cannot meet Chen v.
the more stringent standard for withholding of removal.
INS, 195 F.3d 198, 205 (4th Cir. 1999); INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca, 480 U.S. 421, 430 (1987). Accordingly, dispense with oral we deny the petition the for facts review. and We legal
argument
because
Geris's wife, Faten Moussa Moussa, and his children, George Ayad Geris, Tony Ayad Geris, and Amira Ayad Geris, are derivative applicants of Geris's claim for asylum.
*
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contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
PETITION DENIED
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