United States Tenth Circuit

Denial of plaintiff's request for asylum is remanded where 1) the Immigration Judge's firm resettlement determination lacks record support, and 2) the Immigration Judge failed to support his adverse credibility finding with specific, cogent reasons required by precedent.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/18/2004
• Published 08/18/2004

Judges

• EBEL, Circuit Judge., Before EBEL, HENRY and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William Michael Sharma-Crawford, Overland Park, KS, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• John M. McAdams, Jr., United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, (Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Washington, DC, and Linda S. Wernery, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, with him on the brief), for Respondent.