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MEZA-MANAY v. I.N.S.

No. 96-70990.

139 F.3d 759 (1998)

Teofola Sofia MEZA-MANAY, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 24, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amos Lawrence, San Francisco, California, for petitioner.

Ellen Sue Shapiro, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for respondent.

Before: BROWNING, PREGERSON, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:

Meza-Manay, a citizen of Peru, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") denying her asylum application. We have jurisdiction under section 106(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA"), 8 U.S.C. § 1105a (1996). We grant the petition for review. We reverse and remand.

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Meza-Manay is a thirty-nine-year-old native and citizen of Peru, who first entered the United States without...

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