Case Name: Dardan SHOSHI, Petitioner v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., U.S. Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-04-24
Citations: 519 F. App'x 249
Docket Number: No. 12-60462
Parties: Dardan SHOSHI, Petitioner v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before SMITH, DeMOSS, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 519
Pages: 249–250

Head Matter:
Dardan SHOSHI, Petitioner v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 12-60462
Summary Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
April 24, 2013.
Andrew Paul Johnson, Esq., New York, NY, for Petitioner.
Juria L. Jones, Trial Attorney, Tanger-lia Cox, U.S. Department of Justice Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before SMITH, DeMOSS, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Dardan Shoshi, a native and citizen of Serbia and Montenegro, petitions this court for review of an order from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) vacating the immigration judge's grant of his application for asylum and ordering his removal. In his application seeking asylum or withholding of removal, he asserted that his family was verbally threatened by ethnic Albanians multiple times because his father had worked with the Serbians for 25 years and that, after he left Kosovo, ethnic Albanians shot at his father and uncle on one occasion and kidnapped his father and uncle for several days on three other occasions.
Shoshi argues that, based upon the persecution of his family members, he has established a well-founded fear of future persecution. He may not rely solely upon the treatment of his family members to support his asylum claim. See Arif v. Mukasey, 509 F.3d 677, 681 n. 15 (5th Cir.2007). Moreover, the reasonableness of Shoshi's fears of future persecution is diminished because Shoshi's family members continue to live unharmed in Kosovo. See Eduard v. Ashcroft, 379 F.3d 182, 193 (5th Cir.2004). He has therefore failed to show that "the evidence he presented was so compelling that no reasonable factfinder could fail to find the requisite fear of persecution." Jukic v. INS, 40 F.3d 747, 749 (5th Cir.1994). As Shoshi failed to satisfy the asylum standard, he cannot meet the more stringent standard for withholding of removal. See Eduard, 379 F.3d at 186 n. 2.
His petition for review is DENIED.
Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.