Ilyas Ahmad v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

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• affirming asylum denial where applicant’s testimony conflicted with his application and the applicant failed to submit additional corroborative evidence
• listing cases where the IJ’s credibility determinations were not supported by substantial evidence
• affirming asylum denial where applicant’s testi- mony conflicted with his application and the applicant failed to submit additional corroborative evidence
• listing cases where the IJ’s credibility determinations were not supported by substantial evidence
• affirming asylum denial where applicant’s testimony conflicted with his asylum application, where the IJ disbelieved a letter corroborating the applicant’s membership in a political party, and where the applicant failed to submit addi- tional corroborative evidence
• “[A] reviewing court should not supercede an administrative agency’s findings simply because an alternative finding could also be supported by substantial evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).