Yun-Zui Guan v. Alberto R. Gonzales, United States Attorney General

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• holding that an adverse credibility finding can be based on materially different asylum claims in an airport interview and petitioner’s subsequent testimony before the IJ
• holding that an IJ may base an adverse credibility determination on the petitioner having provided “two distinct, non-overlapping accounts of persecution”
• holding that an IJ may base an adverse credibility determination on the petitioner having provided “two distinct, non-overlapping accounts of persecution”
• holding that an adverse credibility finding can be based on materially different asylum claims in an airport interview and petitioner’s subsequent testimony before the IJ
• explaining that “an alien’s 7 mere recitation that he was nervous” does not “automatically prevent the IJ or 8 BIA” from relying on inconsistent statements
• noting that an IJ’s reliance on an airport interview is appropriate so long as sufficient indicia of reliability are present

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).