United States Second Circuit

Petition for review of the BIA's affirmance of an IJ's denial of petitioner's request for asylum and for withholding of removal is granted where the IJ's credibility finding rested on errors.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/30/2006
• Published 06/30/2006

Judges

• CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:, Before:  CALABRESI, POOLER, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sunit K. Joshi, Wilson, Joshi & Kuzmin, LLP (Vlad Kuzmin, on the brief), New York, N.Y., for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Maria M. Mlynar, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, for Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice (Linda S. Wernery, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, on the brief), Washington, D.C., for Respondent.