United States Second Circuit

Petitions for review of findings that petitioners were not credible and had filed frivolous asylum applications are granted in part to vacate the findings of frivolousness and remand the cases in order to give the BIA the opportunity to interpret and apply the relevant statutes and regulations governing frivolousness under the standards the BIA recently set forth in Y-L-, 24 I. & N. Dec. 151.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/31/2007
• Published 07/31/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before:  STRAUB, POOLER, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Raymond Lo, Kuzmin & Associates, P.C. (Vlad Kuzmin, Kuzmin & Associates, P.C., on the brief), New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant Biao Yang., Joshua Bardavid, Law Office of Jan Potemkin, New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant Ming Liang Lin.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher Fuller, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C. (David L. Huber, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky, Monica Wheatley, Assistant United States Attorney, Louisville, KY, on the brief), for Respondent-Appellee Alberto Gonzales., Christopher Fuller, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C. (Paul I. Perez, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Florida, Karin B. Hoppmann & Linda Julin McNamara, Assistant United States Attorneys, Tampa, FL, on the brief), for Respondent-Appellee Alberto Gonzales.