Tenzin Dhoumo v. Board of Immigration Appeals

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “petitioner’s 11 nationality, or lack of nationality, is a threshold question in determining his 12 eligibility for asylum”
• concluding that an applicant’s “nationality, or 17 lack of nationality, is a threshold question in determining 18 his eligibility for asylum”
• holding that “petitioner’s nationality, or lack of nationality, is a threshold question in determining his eligibility for asylum”
• remanding when failure to determine nationality “was not harmless”
• “If petitioner was a Chinese national, then the appropriate inquiry for the IJ would have been, primarily, not one into past occurrences in India, but into whether petitioner had a well-founded fear of persecution in China.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).