Second Circuit· 6/13/2008

Shunfu Li v. Mukasey

Citations

529 F.3d 141
2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 12638
2008 WL 2405696

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concluding that 8 unexhausted and waived grounds for adverse credibility 9 determination “could, by themselves, support an adverse 10 credibility determination”
noting that “waiver is significant” where 16 unchallenged “findings could, by themselves, support an adverse credibility 17 determination”
noting that “we afford IJs considerable 3 flexibility in determining the authenticity of . . . documents from the totality of the 4 evidence”
observing that testimonial-vagueness finding, on its own, cannot support adverse-credibility determination “unless government counsel or the IJ first attempts to solicit more detail from the alien” (emphasis added)
observing that testimonial-vagueness finding, on its own, cannot support adverse-credibility determination “unless government counsel or the IJ first attempts to solicit more detail from the alien” (emphasis added)
describing that remand may be futile where the court can “confidently . . . predict that the agency would reach the same decision absent the errors that were made” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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Judges: Calabresi, Raggi, Hall

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