Legal Opinion
Fakhry v. Mukasey
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 5, 2008No. 04-73671, 04-76147PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BERZON, Circuit Judge:
Aly Ahmed Fakhry, a native and citizen of Senegal, came to the United States on a temporary visa in 1999. Over three years later he applied for asylum based on his membership in a Senegalese political organization. The Immigration Judge (“IJ”) denied his application, finding that he failed to qualify for the “changed circumstances” exception to the one-year bar on filing asylum claims, or, in the alternative, that he could reasonably relocate to another part of the country. We conclude that there was error in each of the grounds for denying Fakhry’s application for…
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