United States Eleventh Circuit

Denial of application for asylum and withholding of removal under the Immigration and Nationality Act is vacated where the applicant suffered past persecution, and remanded for determination of whether the persecution was on account of the applicant's political opinion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/06/2007
• Published 09/06/2007

Judges

• BARKETT, Circuit Judge:, Before BARKETT and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges, and TRAGER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rodrigo Vilar, Vilar & Solano, P.A., Miami, FL, for Petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sarah D. Himmelhoch, USDOJ, ENRD, Washington, DC, for Respondent.