Fatjon Sterkaj Amemona Sokoli-Sterkaj v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• holding that we lack jurisdiction to consider all claims not “properly presented to the BIA and considered on their merits . . . .”
• holding that we lack jurisdiction to consider all claims not “properly presented to the BIA and considered on their merits . . . .”
• discussing that “an alien’s due process challenge generally does not require exhaustion” because “the BIA lacks authority to review constitutional challenges,” but noting that an “alien must raise correctable procedural errors to the BIA”
• discussing that “an alien’s due process challenge generally does not require exhaustion” because “the BIA lacks authority to review constitutional challenges,” but noting that an “alien must raise correctable procedural errors to the BIA”
• upholding an adverse credibility determination where country reports did not entirely rule out the possibility that applicant’s story was true, but the reports were ultimately inconsistent with and thus undermined the applicant’s claim
• upholding an adverse credibility determination where country reports did not entirely rule out the possibility that applicant’s story was true, but the reports were ultimately inconsistent with and thus undermined the applicant’s claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).