Opinion ID: 2810934
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Qiu’s Individualized Evidence

Text: Among other evidence, the record contains a January 2009 notice addressed to Qiu individually and purportedly issued by the Lianjiang County Xiao Ao Town Family Planning Office (“FPO”) that states that all Chinese citizens who have two children are subject to sterilization and that Qiu is a Chinese citizen. Moreover, the notice indicates, “For the question about if children born in United States will be considered as exceed[ing] birth in family planning polic[y], according to the regulations of Fujian Province Population and Family Planning Policy: China citizen gave birth to his/her children, if the children come back to China, they will be considered as same as China citizen” and “[i]f you come back [to] China and residence in China, after your children registered their household, the family planning policy will be applied on them as same as all local residence, no exception.” The record contains a second notice, dated May 3, 2010, also purportedly from the FPO, which states: We found the facts: gave birth to two children (exceed birth) According to < > you should 6 Case: 14-13838 Date Filed: 06/23/2015 Page: 7 of 13 perform sterilization operation. You have to come to Province Family Planning Office before May 13, 2010 to perform sterilization operation. If you pass due, you will be fined according to Section 32 1 of < >. (emphasis in original). According to Qiu’s hearing testimony, which the IJ fully credited, Qiu wrote to the FPO, and the FPO responded advising her that she would be sterilized and fined if she returned to China. She also testified that the Chinese government would view her two children as Chinese citizens because they had traveled to China using Chinese travel documents. In short, Qiu presented evidence that she received personal notice from her local FPO that she is in violation of Fujian Province’s family planning regulations due to her two U.S.-born children and already has been ordered to appear for involuntary sterilization.