Read Pakasi v. Gonzales, 06-2389

Petition for review of final order from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) is denied where: 1) asylum claims were time-barred; 2) a challenges to denial of withholding of removal failed; and 3) the BIA did not abuse its discretion in declining to remand in light of new country conditions evidence where it considered the evidence and concluded that it failed to establish a substantial likelihood of different result upon remand.

Appellate Information

• Submitted 07/16/2009
• Decided 08/18/2009
• Published 08/18/2009

Judges

• HOWARD, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, SELYA and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William A. Hahn and Hahn & Matkov, on brief, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Richard M. Evans, Assistant Director, and Paul Fiorino, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, on brief, for respondent.