Li Zu Guan, 1 v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

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• holding that remand is futile where “there is no realistic possibility of a different result on remand” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• vacating agency decision based on adverse credibility determination because, despite IJ’s correct identification of one inconsistency within the petitioner’s testimony, “no other aspect of his credibility finding [was] entirely beyond reproach”
• “Given the number of errors and the paucity of valid findings, we are in no position to predict with confidence what the outcome of an error-free proceeding would have been.”
• “[W]hen we find fault with an adverse credibility finding, we will not substitute our own judgment for the agency’s, but ordinarily will remand to the agency for additional explanation or investigation.”
• “[W]hen we find fault with an adverse credibility finding, we will not substitute our own judgment for the agency’s, but ordinarily will remand to the agency for additional explanation or investigation.” (inter- nal quotation marks omitted)
• vacating and remanding to BIA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).