KUMAR v. GARLAND

No. 17-73412.

18 F.4th 1148 (2021)

Bhupinder KUMAR, Petitioner, v. Merrick B. GARLAND, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submission withdrawn March 2, 2021.

Resubmitted November 22, 2021 San Francisco, California.

Filed November 30, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pardeep S. Grewal , Law Offices of Pardeep S. Grewal, Castro Valley, California, for Petitioner.

Matthew A. Connelly , Senior Litigation Counsel; Papa Sandhu , Assistant Director; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.

Before: M. MARGARET MCKEOWN and JACQUELINE H. NGUYEN, Circuit Judges, and ERIC N. VITALIANO, District Judge.


OPINION

Under the REAL ID Act, Immigration Judges ("IJs") must base credibility determinations on "the totality of the circumstances, and all relevant factors." 8 U.S.C. 1158(b)(1)(B)(iii). However, even after the passage of this Act, we continued to follow our historical rule that when an IJ made an adverse credibility...

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