Legal Opinion
Ranjeet Kaur v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 19, 2004No. 02-72302PublishedCited by 248 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
Ranjeet Kaur petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) upholding the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her application for asylum and withholding of removal, and denial of her motion to remand to the IJ to apply for relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). Because we find that the BIA’s asylum decision was not based on substantial evidence, we grant the petition and remand to the BIA for proceedings consistent with this opinion.
I. Background
Ranjeet Kaur is a Sikh and a native and citizen of India. She…
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