United States Fourth Circuit

A petition for review of the BIA's denial of petitioner-Belarusian citizen's application for asylum and related relief is granted and the decision vacated and remanded where the IJ committed substantial legal error in rejecting certain of petitioner's corroborating evidence.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/27/2009
• Decided 01/25/2010
• Published 01/25/2010

Judges

• Before MICHAEL and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and BENSON E. LEGG, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Joshua Adam Berman, Blaine L. Gilbert & Associates, PA, Baltimore, Maryland, for Petitioner. Lauren Fascett, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. ON BRIEF:Blaine L. Gilbert, Blaine L. Gilbert & Associates, PA, Baltimore, Maryland, for Petitioner. Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, David V. Bernal, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washing ton, D.C., for Respondent.