United States First Circuit

A decision denying Indonesian petitioner's application for asylum and withholding of removal, and declining to grant his motion to remand is reversed in part as to the BIA's denial of the motion to remand where it was an abuse of discretion not to consider a timely periodical article reporting violence in central Sulawesi, or to address whether an order granting asylum to petitioner's brother was material to his claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/28/2006
• Published 12/28/2006

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, SILER, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Yan Wang, on brief for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas L. Holzman, Special Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Terri J. Scadron, Assistant Director, on brief for respondent.