United States Ninth Circuit

The protections of INA section 101(a)(42)(B), which grants asylum status to victims of China's oppressive population control policy, apply not only to husbands whose marriages are recognized by Chinese authorities, but also to husbands whose marriages would be legally recognized, but for China's coercive family planning policies.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/07/2003
• Decided 03/15/2004
• Published 03/15/2004

Judges

• REINHARDT, Circuit Judge., Before BROWNING, REINHARDT, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jisheng Li, Esq., Law Office of Jisheng Li, Honolulu, HI, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• M. JocelynLopez Wright, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.