Legal Opinion
Mei Juan Zheng v. Mukasey
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 1, 2008No. Docket 04-5027-agPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:
A person who makes an application for asylum determined to be “frivolous,” or deliberately and materially false, is subject to a grave penalty: permanent ineligibility for most forms of relief under the immigration laws. Petitioner in this case, Mei Juan Zheng (“Zheng”), 2 deliberately filed a materially false asylum application, but withdrew it before the immigration judge (“IJ”) made a final determination of the application. Zheng seeks review of an August 2004 decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming an April 2003 decision of the IJ finding…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Biao Yang v. GonzalesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2007
- Y-LBoard of Immigration Appeals · 2007
- Yuanliang Liu v. U.S. Department of Justice, Attorney General Alberto GonzalesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2006
- Tetyana Ignatova v. Alberto R. Gonzales 1 , Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2005
- Germar Scheerer v. United States Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2006
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3Cited by19 opinions
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- Rajah v. MukaseyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2008
- Xiao Min Chen v. MukaseyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2008
- Wisam Yousif v. Loretta E. LynchCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2015
- X-M-CBoard of Immigration Appeals · 2010
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