United States Tenth Circuit

A final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals finding that petitioner did not present sufficiently credible claims for asylum and related relief based on prospective female genital mutilation if petitioner were returned to her native country is reversed where the decision to deny petitioner relief was not supported by substantial evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/07/2006
• Published 04/07/2006

Judges

• TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge., Before HENRY, McKAY, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Patrick C. Hyde, Patrick C. Hyde, P.C., Denver, CO, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• James E. Grimes (Anthony W. Norwood, Senior Litigation Counsel, Virginia Lum, Attorney, Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, and Terri J. Scadron, Assistant Director, with him on the briefs), United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, District of Columbia, for Respondent.