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· 10/7/2009

Shkambi v. U.S. Attorney General

Citations

  • 584 F.3d 1041
  • 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 22030
  • 2009 WL 3190810

How courts have described this case

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

  • affirming an adverse credibility finding where the asylum applicant described only one incident of harm during his credible-fear interview but described three such incidents during asylum proceedings
  • relying in part on the omission of “entire in- cidents and other significant facts both during his airport interview and again at his credible-fear interview” to sustain an adverse cred- ibility finding
  • “Although Shkambi offered his fear as an explanation for these omissions and inconsistencies, that explanation does not compel a conclusion that Shkambi was credible.”
  • “Although Shkambi offered his fear as an explanation for these omissions and inconsistencies, that explanation does not compel a conclusion that Shkambi was credible.”

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Judges: Hull, Marcus, Anderson

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