Legal Opinion
Mei Chai Ye v. United States Department of Justice
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 6, 2007No. Docket 05-0170-agPublishedCited by 172 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CALABRESI, Circuit Judge.
When an asylum applicant himself has submitted two or more affidavits in support of his application that, he says, have been provided by different persons, but which are strikingly similar in their structure or language, our court has allowed an Immigration Judge (“IJ”) to treat those similarities as evidence supporting an adverse credibility finding. See Surinder Singh v. Bd. of Immigration Appeals, 438 F.3d 145, 148 (2d Cir.2006) (per curiam) (holding that the IJ’s adverse credibility finding was properly based on “the nearly identical language in the written…
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