group” to mean “a group of persons all of whom share a common, immutable characteristic,” for example, “sex, color, or kinship ties, or in some circumstances it might be a shared past experience such as former military leadership or land ownership.” Matter of Acosta, 19 I. & N. Dec. 211, 233 (BIA 1985). More recently, the agency clarified that “particularity and social distinction” are also required. Matter of W-G-R-, 26 I. & N. Dec. 208, 212 (BIA 2014). Particularity goes to “delineation”: it requires that “terms used to describe the group have commonly accep IA 2008) (concluding that Salvadoran youths who resist gang recruitment are not a cognizable social group because they do not share recognizable and discrete attributes); Matter of S-V-, 22 I. & N. Dec. 1306, 1309-10 (BIA 2000) (<HOLDING>); Matter of Acosta, 19 I. & N. Dec. 211, 233
holding that to establish asylum eligibility an applicant must establish that his or her putative persecutor is or could become aware of the applicants possession of the disfavored belief or characteristic holding cjonditions of political upheaval which affect the populace as a whole or in large part are generally insufficient to establish eligibility for asylum holding that documentary evidence pertaining to the asylum applicant himself and to the events in which he was involved  can independently establish facts essential to  an asylum claim holding that a group of colombian citizens who feared kidnapping due to their wealth did not establish eligibility for asylum holding guatemalan military is not a social group qualifying its current and former members for asylum eligibility because they are not subject to statusbased persecution