Garcia Cortes v. Garland "Virginia Garcia Cortes petitions for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals decision affirming an Immigration Judge’s denial of her application for cancellation of removal. The Immigration Judge and Board of Immigration...
Kalulu v. Garland "This court grants a petition for review of an agency denial of asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT relief only under the most extraordinary circumstances. See Gutierrez-Alm, 62 F.4th at 1194; Sharma v. Garland, 9 F.4th 1052, 1060 ...
Gao v. Garland "The IJ’s conclusion that Gao failed to meet her burden of proof is based on the lack of sufficient corroborating evidence. As mentioned above, where, as here, the petitioner’s testimony is deemed credible, but the IJ finds that...
Matter of E-F-N-, 28 I&N Dec. 591 (BIA 2022) Interim Decision #4048 - An Immigration Judge may rely on impeachment evidence as part of a credibility determination where the evidence is probative and its admission is not fundamentally unfair, and the witness...
Nkenglefac v. Garland "Petitioner Giscard Nkenglefac, a native and citizen of Cameroon, applied for admission into the United States on May 9, 2018. The immigration judge (“IJ”), Agnelis Reese, denied Nkenglefac’s application for relief from removal and...
Cuesta-Rojas v. Garland "Darwin Aliesky Cuesta Rojas ("Cuesta Rojas"), a native and citizen of Cuba, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirming the denial of his application for asylum, withholding...
"We are unable to meaningfully review the agency’s removability determination due to the BIA’s failure to consider material evidence—namely, Ahmed’s 1994 marriage certificate. ... The BIA makes no mention of Ahmed’s 1994 marriage certificate. Given that the...
"Petitioner Ai Jun Zhi, a Chinese citizen, petitions for review of the denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal. As we explain below, one of the bases for the immigration judge’s (“IJ”) adverse credibility determination is not supported...
"[T]he two primary problems identified above—the failure by both tribunals [the IJ and the BIA] to explain their rejection of Dong‘s corroborating evidence and the shaky foundation of the adverse credibility determination—operate both separately and in tandem...