United States Second Circuit

Petition for review of a denial of asylum, withholding of removal, and protection against torture claims is granted where: 1) petitioner established that the persecution she feared was on account of her membership in a particular social group; and 2) the immigration judge's decision was based, in part, on factual conclusions reached without substantial evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/03/2006
• Published 03/06/2006

Judges

• STRAUB, Circuit Judge., Before:  CALABRESI, STRAUB, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Hong Ying Gao, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sandra Henson Kinney, Assistant United States Attorney (Kasey Warner, United States Attorney for the District of West Virginia, on the brief), Charleston, West Virginia for Respondent.