United States Ninth Circuit

The court has jurisdiction to Board of Immigration Appeals' decision dismissing petitioner's appeal of an Immigration Judge's refusal to reinstate a voluntarily-withdrawn asylum application, and the BIA erred in failing to address petitioner's claim of a well-founded fear of persecution before concluding he was not eligible for asylum.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/16/2003
• Decided 08/20/2003
• Published 08/20/2003

Judges

• Before:  HUG, GIBSON  and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jonathan M. Kaufman, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Anh-Thu P. Mai, Marshall Tamor Golding, United States Department of Justice Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for the respondent.