Alberto Damaize-Job v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

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• holding that a trier of fact who rejects a witness’s positive testimony because, in his or her judgment, it lacks credibility should offer specific, cogent reasons for such disbelief
• holding that minor disrepencies about dates not related to persecution claim are not adequate basis for negative credibility finding
• holding that minor discrepancies in birth dates of children between the applica- tion and oral testimony were “trivial” errors that did not reflect on the petitioner’s credibility, especially when the applicant had no motivation to misrepresent those dates
• finding that there was no basis for the IJ's assumption that a person fleeing persecution would apply for asylum in the first country in which he arrives
• finding that there was no basis for the IJ's assumption that a person fleeing persecution would apply for asylum in the first country in which he arrives
• noting that applicant’s personal choice not to marry the mother of his children should not be used to evaluate credibility regarding claimed persecution

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