Chenthilkumaran Senathirajah v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding “the immigration judge and the BIA gave far too much weight to the affidavit taken during Sena-thirajah’s airport interview”
• stating that a petitioner may be reluctant to disclose the breadth of his suffering in his home country to a government official upon arriving in the United States
• stating that a petitioner may be reluctant to disclose the breadth of his suffering in his home country to a government official upon arriving in the United States
• stating that a petitioner may be reluctant to disclose the breadth of his suffering in his home country to a government official upon arriving in the United States
• remanding to BIA with instructions to remand to IJ for decision on asylum and withholding application, but without consideration of erroneous adverse credibility finding reversed on appeal
• “[0]ne who flees torture at home will rarely have the foresight or means to do so in a manner that will enhance the chance of prevailing in a subsequent court battle in a foreign land.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).