The Board of Immigration Appeals has sustained DHS's appeal from a grant of CAT deferral to a Guinean respondent whose asylum status had been terminated based on a Minnesota conviction for criminal sexual conduct that the immigration judge found to be a particularly serious crime, holding that the respondent's claimed sexual orientation, the basis for his CAT claim, was not credible and was inadequately corroborated.
The Board held that the respondent's description of only one same-sex relationship, with a former cellmate and no further detail, his otherwise exclusively opposite-sex relationships including the one underlying his criminal conviction, and his shifting self-descriptions as homosexual, bisexual, and gay undermined his claim, and that he provided no independent letters, affidavits, or other corroboration despite years of residence in the United States. The Board also rejected the respondent's separate procedural challenges, including his argument that the immigration judge should have qualified his expert witness on additional subjects, finding no prejudice from any of the claimed errors, and ordered him removed to Guinea.
The full text of Matter of S-K-E- can be found here: https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1460421/dl?inline