Legal Opinion
DASS
Board of Immigration Appeals
Decided July 1, 1989No. ID 3122PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Interim Decision #3122 MATTER OF DASS In Deportation Proceedings A-24287341 Decided by Board September 6, 1989 (1) As an asylum applicant bears the evidentiary burden of proof and persuasion, where there are significant, meaningful evidentiary gaps, the applications ordinarily will be denied for failure of proof. (2) While we adhere to the holding in Matter of Mogharrabt,
19 I&N Dec. 439
(BIA 1987), that the lack of corroboration for an asylum applicant's testimony will not necessarily be fatal to his application, this does not mean that the introduction of supporting evidence is purely an…
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