Bismillah Miah v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States Immigration & Naturalization Service

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• explaining need to review both decisions where BIA rejected IJ’s adverse credibility finding, and explicitly adopted IJ’s corroboration analysis, noting that issues were intertwined because IJ’s credibility findings influenced IJ’s views concerning necessity of corroboration
• reviewing “both the decision of the IJ and the BIA” because the BIA adopted some parts of the IJ’s opinion
• explaining need to review both decisions where BIA rejected IJ’s adverse credibility finding, and explicitly adopted IJ’s corroboration analysis, noting that issues were intertwined because IJ’s credibility findings influenced IJ’s views concerning necessity of corroboration
• “The final order we normally review is the decision of the BIA, unless the BIA defers to the IJ’s findings”

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