United States First Circuit

After the Board of Immigration Appeals finds that petitioner had experienced past persecution in his native country on account of his political opinion, the Board may not further require that petitioner to establish that his well-founded fear of future persecution was country-wide after he had shown persecution in a particular region.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/26/2001
• Published 06/27/2001

Judges

• LIPEZ, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, LYNCH, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Madeline G. Compton for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lyle D. Jentzer, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, with whom David W. Ogden, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Terri J. Scadron, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for appellee.