RAMSAMEACHIRE v. ASHCROFT

Docket No. 01-4071.

357 F.3d 169 (2004)

Nadarjh RAMSAMEACHIRE, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: February 3, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, Law Office of Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, New York, NY, for petitioner.

Megan L. Brackney, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (James B. Comey, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, on the brief; Kathy S. Marks and Gideon A. Schor, Assistant United States Attorneys, of counsel), New York, NY, for respondent.

Before: FEINBERG and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.


SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Nadarjh Ramsameachire ("petitioner" or "Ramsameachire"), a citizen of Sri Lanka and a member of that nation's ethnic Tamil minority, appeals from the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") denying his application for asylum and withholding of removal pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA"), 8 U.S.C. §§ 1158 and 1231, respectively, and for withholding of removal pursuant to the Convention...

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