Legal Opinion
Yan Qin Xiao v. Mukasey
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 27, 2008No. 08-1120PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Yan Qin Xiao and her husband Sun Cheng Jiang seek review of a final order of removal issued by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”). The BIA upheld the Immigration Judge’s (IJ) finding that petitioners’ testimony was not credible and denied their asylum claim. For the reasons explained below, we affirm.
I. Background
Xiao and Jiang are Chinese nationals. They were boyfriend and girlfriend in China. They were never married there.
Jiang entered the United States before Xiao. He applied for asylum in September 2002, after the one year filing deadline— which…
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