United States Second Circuit

Denial of asylum application is upehld where: 1) adverse credibility finding is supported by substantial evidence of material inconsistencies; 2) inconsistencies were self-evident and IJ and BIA were not required to provide opportunity to respond before making adverse credibility determination; 3) BIA did not engage in improper fact-finding; 4) BIA's lack of administrative findings was not error; and 5) BIA did not err in denying petitioner's request for withholding of removal or relief under the United Nations Convention Against Torture.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/02/2006
• Published 05/02/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before:  CABRANES, SOTOMAYOR, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ramesh K. Shrestha, New York, NY, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas I. Meehan, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney (Chuck Rosenberg, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, on the brief), United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas, Houston, TX, for Respondents.