The Board of Immigration Appeals has sustained DHS's appeal from a grant of asylum to a Nicaraguan respondent, holding that the immigration judge's favorable credibility finding did not adequately address several apparent inconsistencies in the respondent's testimony and corroborating evidence, including conflicting accounts of a 2018 protest and unresolved questions about the availability of arrest warrants.
The Board also held that the immigration judge failed to sufficiently analyze whether the respondent's several years living elsewhere in Nicaragua without incident rebutted the presumption of future persecution through internal relocation, and remanded for the agency to reassess credibility, corroboration, and relocation under the correct framework.
The full text of Matter of H-I-A-H- can be found here: https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1456346/dl?inline