Legal Opinion
Hafza H. Hassan v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 7, 2007No. 05-2084PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
Hafza H. Hassan, a native and citizen of Somalia, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) affirming an immigration judge’s (IJ) denial of her application for asylum. We grant the petition and remand the case to the BIA for further proceedings.
I. Background
Hassan entered the United States in 1997. That same year, she applied for asylum in Atlanta, Georgia, claiming that if returned to Somalia, her interclan marriage to Abdullah Mohamed Kulmiye, a member of the Midgan tribe, would subject her to persecution by members of her own clan, the…
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