Gyan Shankar Roneel Rajneesh Shanker, AKA Roneel Rajneesh Shankar Ronald Ritesh Shankar Daya Devi Shankar v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

53 F.3d 340 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Gyan SHANKAR; Roneel Rajneesh Shanker, aka Roneel Rajneesh Shankar; Ronald Ritesh Shankar; Daya Devi Shankar, Petitioners, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. No. 94-70476. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted April 19, 1995. * Decided April 26, 1995. Before: BROWNING, SNEED, and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM ** 2 Gyan Shankar and Daya Devi Shankar, and their minor children Roneel Rajneesh Shankar and Ronald Ritesh Shankar ("the Shankars"), ethnic Indian citizens of Fiji, petition for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirming the Immigration Judge's ("IJ") denial of their application for asylum and withholding of deportation. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1105a(a) and deny the petition for review. 3 We review for abuse of discretion the BIA's denial of asylum, Abedini v. INS, 971 F.2d 188, 191 (9th Cir.1992), and…