U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Weekly Digest Bulletin

Guidance for Processing Reasonable Fear, Credible Fear, Asylum, and Refugee Claims in Accordance with Matter of A-B PM-602-0162 07/12/2018 The following immigration policy memorandum is now available on the Policy Memoranda section of the USCIS website: Guidance for Processing Reasonable Fear, Credible Fear, Asylum, and Refugee Claims in Accordance with Matter of A-B PM-602-0162 On June 11, 2018, the attorney general published Matter of A-B-, 27 I&N Dec. 316 (A.G. 2018), which addresses what asylum applicants must demonstrate in order to show that they were persecuted because of their membership in a particular social group. The purpose of this memorandum is to provide guidance to asylum and refugee officers on how to apply this decision while processing reasonable fear, credible fear, asylum, and refugee claims.