Is a failure to attempt to prove the authenticity of a document significant?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Li v. Wilkinson, 19-541 NAC (2nd Cir. 2021):
Dec. at 214 n.5 ("The failure to attempt to prove the authenticity of a document . . . is significant."); see also Shunfu Li v. Mukasey, 529 F.3d 141, 149 (2d Cir. 2008) (affording IJs "considerable flexibility in determining the authenticity of . . . documents from the totality of the evidence and in using documents found to be authentic in making an overall assessment of the credibility of a petitioner's testimony and, ultimately, of h[is] persecution claim").
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