U.S. Department of Justice

AG Decision

The Attorney General has issued a decision in Matter of NEGUSIE, 29 I&N Dec. 285 (A.G. 2025).

The stay of the Board’s March 16, 2021, order in this matter is vacated, and Matter of Negusie, 28 I. & N. Dec. 120 (A.G. 2020), which held that the bar to asylum eligibility for aliens who have engaged or assisted in the persecution of another does not contain a duress exception, is now the operative opinion.

                                                                                        
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