What is the impact of an applicant's failure to corroborate their testimony with reliable corroborating evidence?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Yanfang Guan v. Garland, 18-2049 NAC (2nd Cir. 2021):
Having questioned Guan's credibility, the agency reasonably relied further on her failure to rehabilitate her testimony with reliable corroborating evidence. See Biao Yang v. Gonzales, 496 F.3d 268, 273 (2d Cir. 2007) ("An applicant's failure to corroborate his or her testimony may bear on credibility, because the absence of corroboration in general makes an applicant unable to rehabilitate testimony that has already been called into question."). The agency
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