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· 7/8/2008

Loho v. Mukasey

Citations

  • 531 F.3d 1016
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 14491
  • 2008 WL 2651157

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that, in light of the adverse credibility finding, the evidence was insufficient to compel a finding of past persecution or well-founded fear of future persecution
  • holding that evidence that the petitioner voluntarily returned to her home country and “took minimal steps to investigate the availability of some means of avoiding a return to the country she claim[ed] to have feared,” supported an adverse credibility finding
  • stating that a petitioner’s “history of willingly returning to his or her home country militates against a finding of . . . a well-founded fear of future persecution”
  • holding that such an inference is warranted
  • explaining how a voluntary return to a home country adversely affects an asylum application
  • “[A]n alien’s history of willingly returning to his or her home country militates against a finding of past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution.”

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Judges: Gibson, O'Scannlain, Graber

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