In the instant case, the BIA failed to address the substance of the Petitioners’ claim for asylum and instead held that the Petitioners failed to establish a prima facie case for asylum based on their stateless status alone. The Petitioners argued extensively in their motion to reopen that revocation of persecution and nationality citizenship that gives their rise to constitutes resulting fear past non-Kazak of future persecution. R. at 29-48. 1.Revocation of citizenship as past persecution The BIA held that the Petitioners failed to establish a prima facie case for asylum based on their stateless status alone. Add. at 45-48. This decision is contrary to precedent in the two Circuit Courts to have specifically considered this issue. In Haile, the Seventh Circuit Court held that revocation of citizenship when it results in statelessness is persecution per se and that the 38