United States Ninth Circuit

A petition for review brought by petitioner, a native of Sudan and citizen of Saudi Arabia, of a denial of his applications for asylum and related relief is remanded for the BIA to consider whether, as a matter of law, individuals under twenty-one years of age are minors under 8 C.F.R. section 1208.4(a)(5)(ii).

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/05/2007
• Decided 03/05/2008
• Published 03/05/2008

Judges

• BETTY B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  B. FLETCHER, WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR., and JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert B. Jobe (argued) and Fatma Marouf, Law Office of Robert B. Jobe, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter Keisler, Assistant Attorney General;  David V. Bernal, Assistant Director, and Collette J. Winston (argued), Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.