U.S. Department of Justice

EOIR BIA Decision

The Board of Immigration Appeals has issued a decision in Matter of O-Y-A-E-, 29 I&N Dec. 190 (BIA 2025).  

Evidence of human rights abuses in Venezuela and past threats to the respondent do not establish an individualized risk of torture where the last threat occurred years before the respondent left the country and the respondent was otherwise unharmed following the threats.

                                                                                      
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