two bases for a conclusion that he has refugee status: that he faces persecution on account of his membership in a social group consisting of his nuclear family, and that his parents’ political opinions regarding family planning are imputed to him. a. Family membership as a basis for protected “social group” refugee status: Lin claims his nuclear family was persecuted in China as a result of his parents’ resistance to the mandatory limits on procreation. The BIA has held in Matter of Acosta, 19 I. & .1993)] (noting that the subgroup of Iranian feminists who refuse to conform to the government’s gender-specific laws and social norms could satisfy the statutory concept of “particular social group”) (internal quotation marks omitted); Lwin v. INS, 144 F.3d 505, 511-12 (7th Cir.1998) (<HOLDING>). Like our sister circuits, we recognize that a
recognizing women as a distinct group recognizing parents of burmese student dissidents as part of a social group because they share a common immutable characteristic holding that government informants are not members of a particular social group holding that persecution of a woman because of her government job or her husbands position as a police officer was not on account of a particular social group holding that government material witnesses do not constitute a particular social group