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Ram v. INS, Ninth CircuitIn this case, the court found the petitioner was eligible to petition for asylum, and remanded the case for a more thorough hearing on whether he had suffered persecution. At previous proceedings, an immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals found that while Ram was credible, the story he told not only did not rise to the level of persecution, any harm he suffered was not because of one of the grounds on which an asylum claim can be made – race, religion, *** or membership in a particular social group. Ram, a native of Fiji, is an ethnic Indian. He testified that his house was repeatedly vandalized, and that his Hindu temple was burned when he refused to convert to Christianity. Because of his race and religion, he was forced to quit his job and was not able to find comparable employment. In the Ninth Circuit, persecution is found when people face a “probability of deliberate imposition of substantial economic disadvantage” because of a characteristic protected under asylum laws. According to the court, were Ram returned to Fiji, it was likely he would face such conditions.
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