Salim

MEMORANDUM ****

Asma Salim, a native and citizen of Bangladesh, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 .

Several ambiguities in the IJ’s opinion preclude proper review of this case. The IJ’s use of the term “severe” in holding that Salim failed to establish past persecution, and his citation to a case that applies the standard for humanitarian asylum, render it impossible to determine whether he applied the correct legal standard in considering Salim’s claim of past persecution. Further, the IJ failed to recognize that a past persecution finding affected the burden analysis for well-founded fear of future persecution and changed country conditions. Neither did he properly describe changed country conditions as an independent factor justifying denial of asylum.

Thus, we cannot conduct a proper review of this case. We remand to the BIA for clarification. Recinos de Leon v. Gonzales, 400 F.3d 1185, 1189 (9th Cir.2005). On remand, the BIA…