United States Third Circuit

The Board of Immigration (BIA) was reversed and remanded in a case involving the denial of a petition for political asylum and the withholding of removal where the BIA failed to properly analyze the issue of corroboration.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/16/2003
• Decided 10/09/2003
• Published 10/09/2003

Judges

• Before ROTH, FUENTES and ALDISERT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Brian P. Downey [Argued], Pepper Hamilton, Harrisburg, PA, Barak A. Bassman, Pepper Hamilton, Philadelphia, PA, Angelo Stio, Pepper Hamilton, Princeton, N.J., for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• David V. Bernal, Christopher C. Fuller, William C. Minick, Anthony C. Payne [Argued], United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, D.C., for Respondents.