Pakasi v. Holder, No. 06-2389

Petition for review of final order from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) is denied where: 1) asylum claims were time-barred; 2) a challenges to denial of withholding of removal failed; and 3) the BIA did not abuse its discretion in declining to remand in light of new country conditions evidence where it considered the evidence and concluded that it failed to establish a substantial likelihood of different result upon remand.      

Read Pakasi v. Holder, No. 06-2389

Appellate Information
Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals
Decided August 18, 2009

Judges
Before Boudin, Selya and Howard, Circuit Judges
Opinion by Howard, Circuit Judge.

Counsel
For Petitioner:  WIalliam A. Hahn and Hahn & Matkov 

For Respondent: Peter D. Keisler, Richard M. Evans and Paul Fiorino.