The Sixth Circuit has denied a petition for review filed by a Nigerian respondent who sought withholding of removal and cancellation of removal. The respondent based his withholding claim on his father’s alleged kidnapping in Nigeria and based his cancellation claim on hardship to his U.S. citizen children.
The Court held that a favorable credibility finding did not eliminate the respondent’s obligation to provide reasonably available corroboration. The Court also joined other circuits in applying substantial evidence review to the cancellation hardship determination after Wilkinson, and found that the record did not compel a finding of exceptional and extremely unusual hardship.
The full text of Nwosu v. Blanche can be found here: https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/26a0158p-06.pdf