Dankam v. Gonzales

Catherine Angele Dankam is a native and citizen of the Republic of Cameroon. She arrived in the United States in November 2002 as a nonimmigrant visitor for pleasure with permission to remain in the United States until April 23, 2003. Dankam overstayed her visa and received a Notice to Appear charging her as removable on this basis. See 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(1)(B). Dankam concedes removability. In October 2003, eleven months after arriving in the United States, Dankam applied for political asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). The immigration judge denied all forms of relief sought by Dankam, and the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirmed without opinion under its streamlined review process. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.1(e)(4). Dankam now petitions this court for review of the decision of the BIA. For the reasons that follow, we deny the petition for review.