United States Seventh Circuit

Denial of asylum is reversed where the IJ made no determination that the petitioner knew that a birth certificate was a forgery, and did not balance corroborative evidence of persecution against trivial inconsistencies in the petitioner's testimony.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/28/2005
• Decided 05/03/2006
• Published 05/03/2006

Judges

• ROVNER, Circuit Judge., Before KANNE, ROVNER, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Beth A. O'Connor (argued), Jones Day, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Karen Lundgren, Department of Homeland Security Office of the District Counsel, Chicago, IL, Anthony W. Norwood, Robbin K. Blaya, Department of Justice Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Jason C. Turner (argued), Department of Justice Antitrust Division, Chicago, IL, for Respondent.