Singh v. Garland

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• explaining that whether an omission hurts credibility “depends in part on the importance that the omitted fact would have had for the purpose of the earlier telling”
• explaining that, 17 “in a hypothetical case, a petitioner who later claims to 18 have been brutally beaten but omitted any reference to a 19 beating from his earlier description of his persecution 20 (there mentioning only less brutal conduct such as a slap in 21 the face
• “Whether . . . such 21 statements are inconsistent depends in part on the importance 5 1 that the omitted fact would have had for the purpose of the 2 earlier telling.”
• “Omissions are undoubtedly probative of untruthfulness in circumstances where 1 Contrary to Sherpa’s assertions, the agency did not err in relying on the interview record. See Ming Zhang v. Holder, 585 F.3d 715, 725 (2d Cir. 2009

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2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Chen v. Garland
  Second Circuit· 2023-07-25· cited 6×
• Singh v. Bondi
  Second Circuit· 2025-06-03· cited 5×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Zhang v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service
  Second Circuit· 2004-10-05· cited 2,266×
• Xiu Xia Lin v. Mukasey
  Second Circuit· 2008-07-21· cited 2,106×
• Gao v. Sessions
  Second Circuit· 2018-05-25· cited 628×
• United States v. Ofray-Campos
  First Circuit· 2008-07-07· cited 269×
• Shu Wen Sun v. Board of Immigration Appeals
  Second Circuit· 2007-12-12· cited 251×
• United States v. Daccarett
  Second Circuit· 1993-09-10· cited 177×
• Tatiana Pavlova v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  Second Circuit· 2006-03-14· cited 173×
• Dedji v. Mukasey
  Second Circuit· 2008-05-08· cited 120×
• Kone v. Holder
  Second Circuit· 2010-02-25· cited 91×
• Thomas Earl KASEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee
  Fourth Circuit· 1993-07-30· cited 36×