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RIZAL v. GONZALES

Docket No. 03-40750.

442 F.3d 84 (2006)

Yose RIZAL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 21, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Raymond Fasano, Madeo & Fasano, New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant.

E. Bryan Wilson, Assistant United States Attorney, for Gregory R. Miller, United States Attorney, Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee, FL, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before: WALKER, Chief Judge, NEWMAN and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

KATZMANN, Circuit Judge.

This case calls upon us to decide whether a certain degree of doctrinal knowledge of an asylum applicant's claimed religion is necessarily a prerequisite for asylum eligibility on grounds of religious persecution. Yose Rizal, a native and citizen of Indonesia, petitions this Court for review of a September 29, 2003 order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA"), dismissing his appeal from the denial by an Immigration Judge ("IJ") of his...

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