United States Eighth Circuit

Petition for review of a decision by the BIA not to reconsider its prior denial of Liberian petitioner's motion to reopen her asylum case is denied where there was no abuse of discretion in the decision since, to the extent a post-hearing right to rehabilitate credibility may exist, it would not apply when an alien has more than one year's notice prior to a hearing that a document is fraudulent, and she fails to take any substantial steps to rectify or explain the alleged fraud during that time.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/23/2007
• Published 02/23/2007

Judges

• MELLOY, Circuit Judge., Before RILEY, MELLOY, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• B.J. Robichaud, Minneapolis, MN, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Aviva L. Poczter, Washington, DC (Peter D. Keisler and Emily Anne Rdford, on the brief), for respondent.