conditions in Kazakhstan that materially
affect
their
eligibility
for
asylum,
withholding of removal, and protection
under the Convention Against Torture.
Add. at 45-48. The Petitioners do not contest the
factual characterization in the denial, that their
failure
to
register
stated
reason
for
with
the
consulate
the
revocation
of
is
the
Kazak
citizenship. However, revocation of citizenship is
ultimately a unilateral action by the government,
and the BIA provides no reasoning as to why such a
unilateral government action would not constitute a
change of country conditions.
The BIA is required
to consider credible and specific evidence that a
government
action
constitutes
is
pretextual
persecution
based
and
on
a
ultimately
protected
ground. Huang v. INS, 421 F.3d 125, 128 (2d. Cir.
2005).
Even
if
the
BIA
finds
that
revocation
of
citizenship does not constitute persecution, it is
still required to analyze whether, as Petitioners
allege, they are now at risk of persecution because
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