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ZAMBRANO v. SESSIONS

No. 16-2131.

878 F.3d 84 (2017)

Edwin Alexander Romero ZAMBRANO, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: December 5, 2017.

Amended: December 14, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Benjamin Winograd , Immigrant & Refugee Appellate Center, LLC, Alexandria, Virginia, for Petitioner. Rebecca Hoffberg Phillips , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. ON BRIEF: Laura Jacobson , L&L Immigration Law, PLLC, Alexandria, Virginia, for Petitioner. Chad A. Readler , Acting Assistant Attorney General, John S. Hogan , Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Petition for review granted; vacated and remanded by published opinion. Judge Gibney wrote the opinion, in which Judge Keenan and Judge Wynn joined.

Edwin Romero Zambrano appeals the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (the "BIA") to affirm an Immigration Judge's ("IJ") decision to deny his application for asylum. Romero Zambrano claims that the BIA applied the wrong legal standard in assessing his asylum eligibility and the wrong standard of review when evaluating...

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