Holding that this Court will affirm the BIA's decision "if it is supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole"
Holding that because the applicant "failed to establish a claim of asylum on the merits, he necessarily fails to establish eligibility for withholding of removal or protection under CAT"
Holding that even if an asylum applicant offers tenable explanations for record- inconsistencies, those explanations do not compel reversal of the immigration judge's adverse credibility determination
Holding that the law of the case should not be overturned "absent 'cogent' and 'compelling' reasons such as 'an intervening change of controlling law, the availability of new evidence, or the need to correct a clear error or prevent manifest injustice'" (quoting United States v. Tenzer, 213 F.3d 34, 39 (2d Cir. 2000))
Holding that a letter prepared by a U.S. embassy official in Yaounde contained “multiple hearsay of the most troubling kind” and, therefore, was “neither reliable nor trustworthy”
Holding that substantial evidence supported the finding that the alien failed to establish past persecution based on incredible testimony and unreliable corroborative evidence
Fed. R. Evid. 401 Cited 14,184 times 36 Legal Analyses
Stating that evidence is relevant if it has "any tendency to make a fact more or less probable than it would be without the evidence" and "the fact is of consequence in determining the action"
Stating that for an alien to be eligible for deferral of removal under the CAT, they must "ha[ve] been found under § 1208.16(c) to be entitled to protection under the Convention Against Torture"
8 C.F.R. § 1212.3 Cited 134 times 2 Legal Analyses
Providing that LPRs who pled guilty to certain crimes before April 1, 1997 can apply for relief under former section 212(c) during the pendency of their removal proceedings