NOT PRECEDENTIAL UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT ________________ No. 18-1385 ________________ CHUN YAO LIN, Petitioner v. ATTORNEY GENERAL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (Agency No. A200-174-211) Immigration Judge: Honorable Steven A. Morley ______________ Submitted Under Third Circuit L.A.R. 34.1(a) September 27, 2018 ______________ Before: SMITH, Chief Judge, McKEE, RESTREPO, Circuit Judges (Filed: August 20, 2019) ____________ OPINION ____________ This disposition is not an opinion of the full Court and pursuant to I.O.P. 5.7 does not constitute binding precedent. McKEE, Circuit Judge. Chun Yao Lin petitions for review of the BIA’s dismissal of his appeal of the IJ’s decision denying his applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). For the reasons that follow, we will deny the petition for review. The Attorney General may grant asylum to a refugee who can show that he is unable or unwilling to return to his country because of a “well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”1 To establish such a fear, the refugee must demonstrate both a subjective, genuine fear of persecution and, “objectively, that ‘a reasonable person in the alien’s circumstances would fear persecution if returned to the country in question.’”2 To satisfy the objective prong, the refugee “must show she would be individually singled out for persecution or demonstrate that ‘there is a pattern or practice in his or her country of nationality . . . of persecution of a group of persons similarly situated to the applicant on account of[,]’” inter alia, “religion.”3 1 Lie v. Ashcroft, 396 F.3d 530, 534–35 (3d Cir. 2005) (quoting 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(42)(A)). 2 Id. at 536 (quoting Zubeda v. Ashcroft, 333 F.3d 463, 469 (3d Cir. 2003)). 3 Id. (quoting 8 C.F.R. § 208.13(b)(2)(iii)(A)). 2 The standard for withholding of removal is similar to, but higher than, the standard for asylum.4 Accordingly, any petitioner who fails to satisfy the standard for asylum necessarily cannot meet the standard for withholding of removal.5 Finally, an applicant who seeks to remain in the United States under the CAT must establish that “it is more likely than not that he or she would be tortured if removed to the proposed country of removal.”6 Torture is defined as [A]ny act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or her or a third person information or a confession, punishing him or her for an act he or she or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or her or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in ...
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