Lapadat

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ION LAPADAT; GIOVANI No. 23-1745

BECALI LAPADAT; LAURA

Agency Nos.

LAPADAT; MIRABELA

A208-585-239

LAPADAT; SIMONA LAPADAT,

A209-171-053

A208-585-240

Petitioners,

A209-171-054

v.

A209-171-052

PAMELA BONDI, Attorney General, OPINION

Respondent.

On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals Argued and Submitted May 14, 2024 Pasadena, California Filed February 12, 2025 Before: Ronald Lee Gilman, * N. Randy Smith, and Salvador Mendoza, Jr., Circuit Judges. Opinion by Judge Mendoza; Dissent by Judge N. Randy Smith

* The Honorable Ronald Lee Gilman, United States Circuit Judge for the Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit, sitting by designation. SUMMARY **

Immigration

Granting Ion Lapadat’s petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision affirming the denial of asylum and withholding of removal, and remanding, the panel concluded that the record compelled the conclusion that Ion’s past experiences rose to the level of persecution, and that the BIA erred when it…