Legal Opinion
Sinnathurai Sivakaran v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States of America
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 25, 2004No. 03-1158PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge.
Sinnathurai Sivakaran, a citizen of Sri Lanka, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) affirming an Immigration Judge’s (IJ’s) denial of his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). For reversal, Sivakaran argues that, among other things, the IJ improperly found he was not credible and had not met his burden of proof for asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT relief. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm in part and remand in part.
We conclude that the BIA’s decision…
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