United States Fourth Circuit

Petition for review of denial of applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture, is granted, primarily, where the BIA's cursory statement on forced IUD insertion in China does not provide sufficient information to conduct a meaningful review of BIA's conclusion that petitioner did not suffer past persecution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/20/2008
• Published 02/20/2008

Judges

• Before WILLIAMS, Chief Judge, TRAXLER, Circuit Judge, and Louise W. FLANAGAN, Chief United States District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Yee Ling Poon, New York, NY, for Petitioner.  Mona Maria Yousif, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.   ON BRIEF:  Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, M. JocelynLopez Wright, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.