Kin v. Holder

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an omission of material details “constitute[d] substantial evidence to support the BIA’s adverse credibility determinations”
• explaining that, in applying the substantial evidence standard, “[w]e reverse the BIA’s decision only if the petitioner’s evidence was ‘so compelling that no reasonable factfinder could find that he was not credible’”
• acknowledging that Immigration Judge determinations regarding demeanor are given “special deference” and that the Immigration Judge “must still provide specific examples of a petitioner’s demeanor that would support this basis for an adverse credibility determination”
• describing inconsistencies between and among the petitioners’ testimony and other testimonial or documentary evidence as constituting substantial evidence in support of an adverse credibility determination
• upholding an adverse credibility determination when the petitioner’s “explanation [was] not persuasive enough to compel the conclusion that the omissions were immaterial”
• upholding an adverse credibility finding where the petitioners “omitted any mention of their participation in a demonstration that is the entire basis for their claim”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).