Legal Opinion
Hekmat Wadih Mikhael v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 4, 1997No. 95-60581PublishedCited by 242 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEWART, Circuit Judge:
Hekmat Wadih Mikhael (“Mikhael”) appeals the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA” or “the Board”) affirmance of the Immigration Judge’s (“U”) denial of his application for asylum and withholding of deportation. After a careful review of the record, the briefs and the arguments of counsel, we VACATE the decision of the BIA and REMAND with instructions to reconsider Mikhael’s asylum and withholding of deportation requests.
BACKGROUND1
Mikhael is a Greek-Orthodox Christian Lebanese citizen who was born in Sierra Leone, Africa, in 1966. In 1975, his family moved to Tripoli,…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-ZacariasSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
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- Kamla Prasad Meena Kumari Prasad Catherine Sandhya Prasad Micky Sudesh Prasad Ricky Sumit Prasad v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1995
- Zhu Yu Chun v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1994
- Jan Kapcia v. Immigration & Naturalization Service, Stanislaw Saulo v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1991
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