Ganna Romanivna Dorosh v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General Immigration and Naturalization Service

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• concluding that communication, for purposes of determining reasonable availability, need not be “convenient, regular, or private” to be sufficient
• holding that when it is reasonable to expect corroborating evidence, the absence of such evidence can lead to a finding that an applicant has failed to meet her burden of proof
• holding that corroborative evidence could be reasonably expected when petitioner was in contact with her mother yet produced no affidavit from her, despite having ample time between her notice of removal and hearing
• finding that even though “contact may not have been convenient, regular, or private, it was sufficient to have allowed Petitioner to obtain a previous letter from her mother in which her mother documented her own mistreatment”
• upholding a requirement of corroboration where “[pjetitioner was in contact with her mother ... yet ... she produced no affidavit from her”
• corroborating evidence — such as letters from friends and relatives in Ukraine — was reasonably expected and petitioner “offered no special circumstances to explain [its] absence”

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