Opinion ID: 673239
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: February 1986--February 1988

Text: 15 Wu contends that from February 1986 to September 1986, he continued to work at Faith Cumberland Presbyterian Church in San Antonio. Thereafter, he claims he worked as a minister at the Chinese Christian Fellowship Church in Hacienda Heights, California until the date of the Show Cause hearing. 16 In addition to his own testimony, Wu introduced a letter from the Hacienda Heights congregation's Chief Executive Officer stating that Wu has been an extremely active assistant pastor and youth leader of Hacienda Heights Christian Fellowship Church since September of 1986. The letter indicated that while there might be other persons who could minister in limited ways, Mr. Wu is ... the only person with the proper training, who also speaks both Taiwanese dialect and Mandarin, that we have been able to locate. The letter did not specifically list work duties, and it did not state how much time he devoted to his different functions. 17 The IJ discounted the Hacienda Heights letter. It failed to specify the terms of or actual duties of his office. The IJ also noted that the letter contained language that was virtually identical to that in a September 1985 letter written by the pastor at Wu's San Antonio church. 18 While Wu clearly attempted to comply with the statutory requirement, we can not conclude that evidence presented by Wu is so strong that no reasonable factfinder could fail to find that he satisfied the requirements of a special immigrant minister. INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 112 S.Ct. at 817. 19 AFFIRMED.