Yan Zhao v. Eric Holder, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that BIA may not give diminished weight to photocopy because its practice manual instructs parties to submit photocopies
• holding that BIA may not afford 16 diminished weight to a photocopy because “its own Appeals Practice Manual” 17 instructs parties to submit photocopies
• recognizing that “[i]n asylum eases involving China’s family planning policy, the BIA ... looks to the ‘alien’s local province, municipality, or other locally-defined area’ ” (internal citation omitted)
• noting that a petitioner could demonstrate an objectively reasonable fear of persecution by providing evidence of provincial policy or of strict enforcement of that policy in her city or town
• providing that “the BIA instructs petitioners not to file original documents”
• finding the BIA erred in requiring a Chinese petitioner to provide evidence of the government policy in her town and noting that “[n]either the BIA nor this court has previously required municipal-level proof when the petitioner presents province-level proof”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).