United States Second Circuit

Petition for review of denial of application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture, is granted where the agency failed to: 1) determine whether petitioner's status as a boyfriend and father qualifies him as a refugee; and 2) reach a definitive general credibility finding regarding petitioner's testimony and supporting statements and to determine whether petitioner has established a credible claim of past persecution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/23/2006
• Published 05/23/2006

Judges

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

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gang Zhou, New York, NY, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jonathan D. Colan, Assistant United States Attorney (R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney, Anne R. Schultz, Chief, Appellate Division, Laura Thomas Rivero, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, Miami, FL, for Respondent.