HOXHA v. GONZALES

No. 05-1454.

446 F.3d 210 (2006)

Fatmir HOXHA; Ermira Hoxha; Vincenzo Hoxha; Anxhelo Hoxha, Petitioners, v. Alberto GONZALES, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 3, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel F. Cashman, with whom Cashman & Lovely, P.C., and Susanna L. Shafer were on brief, for petitioners.

H.S. García, United States Attorney, with whom Nelson Pérez-Sosa and Scott Anderson, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on brief, for respondent.

Before TORRUELLA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges, and DiCLERICO, District Judge.


LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

We must decide whether substantial evidence supports the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) affirmance without opinion of an Immigration Judge's (IJ) denial of the petitioners' application for asylum based on an adverse credibility determination. After reviewing the testimony and documents in the record, we affirm.

I.

On March 31, 2002, Fatmir Hoxha ("Hoxha"), his wife, Ermira Hoxha, and their two children, Vincenzo and Anxhelo...

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