United States Ninth Circuit

A petition for review brought by a Sikh citizen of India challenging a final order of deportation is granted and the matter remanded where an IJ erred in denying applications for asylum and related relief, solely on the basis of an adverse inference drawn from petitioner's refusal to allow access to a Canadian immigration file under his name.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/12/2007
• Published 06/12/2007

Judges

• Before:  W. FLETCHER and JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges, and THELTON E. HENDERSON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Inna Lipkin, Law Office of Kuldip S. Dhariwal, Fremont, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Allen W. Hausman, & Blair T. O'Connor, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.