Legal Opinion
Yose Rizal v. Alberto R. Gonzales, 1
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 21, 2006No. Docket 03-40750PublishedCited by 163 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KATZMANN, Circuit Judge.
This case calls upon us to decide whether a certain degree of doctrinal knowledge of an asylum applicant’s claimed religion is necessarily a prerequisite for asylum eligibility on grounds of religious persecution. Yose Rizal, a native and citizen of Indonesia, petitions this Court for review of a September 29, 2003 order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), dismissing his appeal from the denial by an Immigration Judge (“IJ”) of his applications for asylum and withholding of removal. Rizal argues that the IJ’s determination that he had failed to sustain his…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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