United States Eleventh Circuit

Making intentional and material misrepresentations on a refugee asylum application will automatically disqualify an applicant for asylum for filing a frivolous application, even if alien applicant later recanted the fraudulent claims in a second application.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/19/2001
• Published 12/19/2001

Judges

• HILL, Circuit Judge:, Before BARKETT, HILL and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles H. Kuck,Schwartz Kuck & Associates, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Emily Anne Radford, Joshua E. Braunstein, Ann Varnon, Joseph F. Ciolino, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Div., Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.