Legal Opinion
Meng Ly CHEO; Meng Heng Cheo, Petitioners, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 16, 1998No. 96-71041PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:
This asylum ease turns on who must prove firm resettlement or the lack of it in a third country, if the asylum seeker has been there for a substantial period of time.
Facts.
Meng Ly Cheo and Meng Heng Cheo are of Cambodian nationality. They applied for asylum on the ground that armed groups had tried to recruit them. One temporarily bought his way out with his watch and the money in his pockets. The armed groups commonly used threats of recruitment to extort money. The other brother was beaten up for not joining. Both had to get themselves smuggled out of the country to…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Mihaly Kotasz, Agnes Horvath Kotasz, Matyas Kotasz, and Erika Kotasz v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1994
- Khosrow Gharib Rashtabadi v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1994
- Gilma Esperanza Estrada-Posadas v. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1991
- Dao Vang v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1998
- 96 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 2042, 96 Daily Journal D.A.R. 3456 Pao Yang Ying Yang Jimmy Yang Bao Yang Seyar Yang Phonesavanne Yang v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1996
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3Cited by56 opinions
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