WANGCHUCK v. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

No. 04-1307 AG.

448 F.3d 524 (2006)

Jigme WANGCHUCK, Petitioner, v. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, Immigration & Customs Enforcement, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: May 15, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary J. Yerman, New York NY, for Petitioner.

Anton P. Giedt, Assistant United States Attorney, District of Massachusetts (Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, of counsel) Boston, MA, for Respondents.

Before: KEARSE and SACK, Circuit Judges, and STANCEU, Judge.


SACK, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner, Jigme Wangchuck, petitions for the review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal to India and China, and relief under the Convention Against Torture1 ("CAT"). Wangchuck, who was born in India to Tibetan refugee parents and has never been to China (of which Tibet is now an "autonomous...

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