Ninth Circuit· 9/6/2013

Yan Zhao v. Eric Holder, Jr.

Citations

728 F.3d 1144
2013 WL 4767353
2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 18590

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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”

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Judges: Barry, Fisher, Raymond, Sidney, Silverman, Thomas

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