Legal Opinion

Ranjit John Singh Chand Kumari, A/K/A Chand Kumari Singh Renika Singh v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided September 6, 1996No. 95-70008PublishedCited by 130 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:

Ranjit John Singh petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (“BIA”) denial of his application for asylum and withholding of deportation under Sections 208(a) and 243(h) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (the “Act”), 8 U.S.C. §§ 1158(a), 1253(h). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a), and we grant the petition for review.

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Ranjit John Singh, his wife Chand Kumari Singh, and daughter Renika Singh, are ethnic Indian citizens (“Indo-Fijians”) of Fiji. 1 They were admitted to the United States as visitors on May 6, 1989, with permission to…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-ZacariasSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
  2. Farid Faham Gamal Ghaly v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1995
  3. 96 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 2252, 96 Daily Journal D.A.R. 3751 Saideh Fisher, AKA Saideh Hassib-Tehrani Kian Hosseini Lavasani v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1996
  4. Kamla Prasad Meena Kumari Prasad Catherine Sandhya Prasad Micky Sudesh Prasad Ricky Sumit Prasad v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1995
  5. Mihaly Kotasz, Agnes Horvath Kotasz, Matyas Kotasz, and Erika Kotasz v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1994

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3Cited by130 opinions

  1. 97 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 8943, 97 Daily Journal D.A.R. 14,491 Veronico Blas Almario Kalaw Eleanor Lu Dalisay v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Florencia Garcia Revilla v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Anastacia Miranda-Gonzalez v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1997
  2. Wakkary v. HolderCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2009
  3. Mohamed Abdille v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2001
  4. Taty Lieana Tearsa Sael, Orville Wright Manariangkuba v. John Ashcroft, Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2004
  5. Marjorie Konda Lolong v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2007

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