Burden / standard of proof / Credibility assessment

10 February 2005 | Judicial Body: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Generalized violence - Grounds for persecution - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) | Countries: Somalia - United States of America

Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals.

1 July 2004 | Judicial Body: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Female genital mutilation (FGM) - Transgression of social / cultural norms - Well-founded fear of persecution - Yoruba | Countries: Nigeria - United States of America

Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals. Non precedential opinion.

13 November 2003 | Judicial Body: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Convention against Torture (CAT) - Credibility assessment - Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) | Countries: China - United States of America

13 June 1996 | Judicial Body: United States Board of Immigration Appeals | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Female genital mutilation (FGM) - Social group persecution | Countries: Togo - United States of America

8 November 1995 | Judicial Body: United States Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Burden of proof - Credibility assessment - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness | Countries: United States of America

The BIA found that past persecution suffered by the applicant was so severe that asylum should be granted notwithstanding the change of circumstances in the country of origin.

19 May 1995 | Judicial Body: United States Board of Immigration Appeals | Document type: Case Law | Countries: Afghanistan - United States of America