Legal Opinion
Al-Ghorbani v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 9, 2009No. 08-3376PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge.
Abdulmunaem Abdullah AI-Ghorbani (Abdulmunaem) and his brother, Salah Abdullah Motahar Alghurbani (Salah), arrived in the United States in 1999 with non-immigrant visas. They had fled their native country of Yemen after being threatened with death by Abdulmunaem’s father-in-law, General Abu Taleb, a high-ranking military officer. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) initiated removal proceedings against the brothers in 2003. At a hearing before an Immigration Judge (IJ), the brothers petitioned for a grant of asylum, the withholding of re…
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