Legal Opinion
Edwin Romero Zambrano v. Jefferson B. Sessions III
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided December 14, 2017No. 16-2131PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Petition for review granted; vacated and remanded by published opinion. Judge Gibney wrote the opinion, in which Judge Keenan and Judge Wynn joined.
GIBNEY, District Judge:
Edwin Romero Zambrano appeals the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (the “BIA”) to affirm an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) decision to deny his application for asylum. Romero Zambrano claims that the BIA applied the wrong legal standard in assessing his asylum eligibility and the wrong standard of review when evaluating the I J’s decision. As explained below, we agree that the BIA applied the wrong legal standard for…
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