UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 02-2337
RACHEL AWULI AJEBON,
Petitioner,
versus
JOHN ASHCROFT, Attorney General,
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals. (A76-470-279)
Submitted: August 5, 2003 Decided: September 10, 2003
Before WILKINSON, KING, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.
Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Danielle L. C. Beach-Oswald, NOTO & OSWALD, P.C., Washington, D.C.,
for Petitioner. Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney
General, Mark C. Walters, Assistant Director, Jacqueline R. Dryden,
Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:
Rachel Awuli Ajebon, a native and citizen of Nigeria,
petitions this court for review of a final order of the Board of
Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming, without opinion, the
immigration judge’s denial of asylum and withholding of removal.
Ajebon challenges the BIA’s conclusion that her asylum application
failed to demonstrate either past persecution or a well-founded
fear of future persecution driven by the imputed political opinions
of her husband.
We find no basis to overturn the BIA’s decision, however. The
evidence in the record indicates that the examples of past
discrimination on which Ajebon relied were not driven by imputed
political opinion. See M.A. v. INS, 899 F.2d 304, 307 (4th Cir.
1990) (en banc). Likewise, the record indicates that changed
circumstances undermine Ajebon’s assertion that her fear of
persecution should she return to Nigeria is well-founded. See Chen
v. INS, 195 F.3d 198, 201-02 (4th Cir. 1999); Gebremichael v. INS,
10 F.3d 28, 37 (1st Cir. 1993).
Accordingly, we deny Ajebon’s 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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