The Fifth Circuit has determined that an asylum applicant has the obligation to provide some evidence of the social distinction of her nuclear family in her society when relying on that family as a particular social group for asylum purposes. The Court was also critical of the Biden Administration’s failure to promulgate proposed regulations on family-based particular social groups.
The full text of Garcia-Gonzalez v. Garland can be found here:
https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/22/22-60501-CV0.pdf