· 12/12/2005
Xhevgjet Kllokoqi v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States, 1
Citations
- 439 F.3d 336
- 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 27071
- 2005 WL 3358918
How courts have described this case
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- holding that adverse credibility determination cannot be supported by inconsistencies that do not involve the heart of petitioner’s claim
- holding that minor discrepancies in the date of an alien’s graduation from high school as compared to the date of a beating did not justify an adverse credibility finding
- reversing adverse credibility finding and holding that corroborating evidence should not have been required
- reversing the credibility determination where “the number of traumatic and tragic events that have happened to” the alien made his lack of memory on the name of a high school he attended a decade earlier insufficient to support the finding
- reversing the credibility determination where “the number of traumatic and tragic events that have happened to” the alien made his lack of memory on the name of a high school he attended a decade earlier insuffi- cient to support the finding
- “State department reports are entitled to deference, but the IJ must make an individual- ized determination.”
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Judges: Cudahy, Rovner, Williams
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