BIA Says Competency Issues Shouldn't Harm Asylum Seekers

By Kelly Knaub ( June 11, 2015, 6:08 PM EDT) -- The Board of Immigration Appeals issued a precedential ruling Thursday saying that if an applicant for asylum has competency issues that affect the reliability of his testimony, the immigration judge should generally accept the petitioner's fear of harm as subjectively genuine based on his or her perception of events....

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