United States Second Circuit

Review of decision directing removal of husband and wife petitoners to Russia and denying asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture is dismissed in part, granted in part, and the order of removal is vacated where: 1) wife-petitioner's claims were dismissed for failure to exhaust administrative remedies; 2) there were numerous errors in assessing husband-petitioner's applications for asylum and withholding of removal; 3) IJ's conclusion that husband-petitioner must have participated in the stated abuse because he equivocated the meaning of "rape" was not supported by substantial evidence; and 4) wife-petitioner may be eligible for derivative relief based on her husband's application.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/12/2008
• Published 11/12/2008

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• United States Second Circuit

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