Opinion ID: 3033597
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Facts Presented in the Motion to Reopen and

Text: Supporting Declaration Bhasin timely moved to reopen her proceedings in order to present previously unavailable evidence, focusing solely on “membership in a particular social group” as a protected ground.2 She presented evidence in the form of a sworn declaration that her two daughters and her son-in-law (who live together), had received death threats while the appeal before the Board was pending, including blank letters dotted with blood, blood-stained rags left on their doorstep, and violent verbal threats over the telephone similar to the threats made to Bhasin herself when she was in India. In one phone call, Bhasin’s daughter was told that her brothers were missing, and that everyone in her family would soon disappear. Bhasin also testified in her declaration that both her daughters and her son-in-law have now disappeared; she has not heard from them since October 24 or 25, 2002. She continued to try to telephone them for a period of six months. She has 2 Bhasin has similarly restricted her petition for review to the social group protected ground. 12046 BHASIN v. GONZALES concluded that their phone has been disconnected. When Bhasin contacted her daughters’ neighbors, they also informed her that the daughters and son-in-law had not been seen since that date.