Tenzin Dhoumo v. Board of Immigration Appeals

Petitioner Tenzin Dhoumo petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”)’s April 15, 2003, order summarily affirming the Immigration Judge (“IJ”)’s written decision and order dated June 6, 2001, rejecting his claims for asylum and withholding of removal, and ordering him removed to India. Because the IJ and BIA failed to address the threshold issue of petitioner’s nationality, the petition is granted, the BIA’s order is vacated, and the case is remanded.

BACKGROUND

Dhoumo was born in India in 1963 to two Tibetan refugee parents and raised in a Tibetan refugee camp in India.…