Chadan Eugenio v. Bondi

── Chadan Eugenio v. Bondi ── Case No.: 24-655 Court: Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Date: April 01, 2026 Category: General 24-655 Chadan Eugenio v. Bondi BIA Lazare-Raphael, IJ A220 574 213 & 220 969 900/901 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT SUMMARY ORDER RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT’S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION “SUMMARY ORDER”). A PARTY CITING A SUMMARY ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL. 1 At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second 2 Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley 3 Square, in the City of New York, on the 1st day of April, two thousand twenty- 4 six. 5 6 PRESENT: 7 JOSEPH F. BIANCO, 8 MYRNA PÉREZ, 9 MARIA ARAÚJO KAHN, 10 Circuit Judges. 11 _____________________________________ 12 13 MANUEL SEBASTIAN CHADAN 14 EUGENIO, CELIDA BENILDE PUNINA- 15 CHISAG, E.M.C-P.,* 16 Petitioners, 17 18 v. 24-655 19 NAC 20 PAMELA BONDI, UNITED STATES *We have used only initials to refer to the minor petitioners in this publicly accessible order, in accordance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2(a)(3) and Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 25(a)(5).  1 ATTORNEY GENERAL, 2 Respondent. 3 _____________________________________ 4 5 FOR PETITIONER: Michael Borja, Borja Law Firm, P.C., Jackson 6 Heights, NY. 7 8 FOR RESPONDENT: Brian Boynton, Principal Deputy Assistant 9 Attorney General; Keith I. McManus, 10 Assistant Director; Nelle M. Seymour, Trial 11 Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, 12 United States Department of Justice, 13 Washington, DC. 14 UPON DUE CONSIDERATION of this petition for review of a Board of 15 Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) decision, it is hereby ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND 16 DECREED that the petition for review is DENIED. 17 Petitioner Manuel Sebastian Chadan Eugenio, his wife Celida Benilde 18 Punina-Chisag, and their minor child, natives and citizens of Ecuador, seek review 19 of a February 13, 2024, decision of the BIA affirming a June 16, 2022, decision of an 20 Immigration Judge (“IJ”) denying Chadan Eugenio’s application for asylum, 21 withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture 22 (“CAT”). In re Manuel Sebastian Chadan Eugenio, et al., Nos. A 220 574 213 & 220 23 969 900/901 (B.I.A. Feb. 13, 2024), aff’g Nos. A 220 574 213 & 220 969 900/901 24 (Immigr. Ct. N.Y.C. June 16, 2022). We assume the parties’ familiarity with the 25 underlying facts and procedural history. 2  1 We have reviewed the IJ’s decision as modified and supplemented by the 2 BIA, and consider only the adverse credibility determination, which was the sole 3 basis