Legal Opinion
Najah Gorges Elias v. Alberto R. Gonzales, United States Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 15, 2007No. 06-3366PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
In this asylum case, petitioner Najah Gorges Elias, a native of Iraq and Chaldean Christian, seeks reversal of a Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) decision dismissing his appeal from an oral decision of an Immigration Judge (“IJ”). For the following reasons, we grant the petition for review, vacate the decision of the BIA, and remand for a new hearing before another IJ.
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At the time of his removal hearing on October 20, 2004, petitioner was a thirty-one year old male citizen of Iraq who entered the United States on or about May 1, 2003, in or near Detroit, Michigan. He is an ethnic…
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