Hafza H. Hassan v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States

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• holding that a noncitizen who suffered female genital mutilation showed a nexus to the group “Somali females”
• recognizing Somali females as a particular social group because of 98% prevalence of female genital mutilation
• recognizing the doctrine, but declining to apply it after an alien voluntarily departed but then failed to meet with government officials to discuss her request for a stay of deportation while no longer in the United States
• recognizing the doctrine, but declining to apply it after an alien voluntarily departed but then failed to meet with government officials to discuss her request for a stay of deportation while no longer in the United States
• rejecting the argument that an applicant subject to FGM must fear repetition of the exact harm she suffered in the past
• explaining that, although a woman who has already undergone FGM may not be able to show that she has a well-founded fear of future FGM, she may nevertheless face other forms of future persecution that make her eligible for asylum

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).