Opinion ID: 797143
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Lin's account of his wife's period of hiding

Text: 81 The IJ's decision relied on the fact that Lin had testified at his reopened hearing that his wife had hidden six kilometers away with her mother, and that this testimony was inconsistent with Lin's wife's written statement that she had gone far away to hide with a friend. An examination of the transcript of the 2000 hearing, however, reveals that the IJ's description of Lin's testimony was inaccurate. Lin actually stated that his wife had hidden both with friends and with her mother. When the IJ subsequently asked Lin to explain the apparent discrepancy between his wife's characterization of her hiding place as far away and his statement that his mother-in-law lived six kilometers away, Lin stated again, in conformity with his initial testimony, that his wife had hidden in multiple locations. On this record, we find the IJ's characterization of Lin's and his wife's stories on this matter as inconsistent to be unsupported by the record. See Chung Sai Zheng v. Gonzales, 440 F.3d 76, 80 (2d Cir.2006).