Legal Opinion
ACOSTA
Board of Immigration Appeals
Decided July 1, 1985No. ID 2986PublishedCited by 621 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Interim Decision #2986 MATTER OF ACOSTA In Deportation Proceedings A-24159781 Decided by Board March 1, 1985 (1) Construction of the provisions the United Nations Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, Jan. 31, 1967, [1968] 19 U.S.T. 6223, T.I.A.S. No. 6577, 606 U.N.T.S. 268, is left by that agreement to each state that is party to the Protocol; accord- ingly, the various international interpretations of the Protocol, including the Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status Under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the status of Refugees pub-…
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