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VIRIDIANA v. HOLDER

No. 06-73335.

630 F.3d 942 (2011)

Winnie VIRIDIANA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed January 19, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gihan L. Thomas , Los Angeles, CA, for petitioner Winnie Viridiana.

Peter D. Keisler , Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Richard M. Evans , Assistant Director, Allen W. Hausman , Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for respondent Eric H. Holder Jr., United States Attorney General.

Before: BETTY B. FLETCHER and RICHARD A. PAEZ, Circuit Judges, and DONALD E. WALTER, District Judge.

OPINION

PAEZ, Circuit Judge:

Winnie Viridiana, an Indonesian citizen of Chinese descent, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") order affirming an Immigration Judge's ("IJ's") denial of her claims for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252, and we grant the petition and remand.

The principal issue that we address in this appeal is whether the IJ correctly determined that Viridiana...

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