Nigerian Man Gets Second Shot at Asylum After Successful Appeal

The Board of Immigration Appeals wrongly denied asylum to a Nigerian man by concluding that involuntarily cooking meals for the leaders of a terrorist organization amounted to material support, a divided Fourth Circuit court ruled Tuesday.

Izuchukwu Ozurumba’s time as a “captive laborer” for a Tier III terrorist organization in Nigeria doesn’t reach the material-support bar under the Immigration and Nationality Act, Judge James Andrew Wynn said, vacating the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order that Ozurumba is ineligible for asylum.

“Cooking meals using food and supplies purchased by the organization may have ‘sustained’ the organization in the broadest possible sense—by ...