Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit September 18, 2009, Nos. 06-71390, 07-70276 (Dimitrov v. Holder)

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MEMORANDUM *

Yanko Hristov Dimitrov, a citizen of Bulgaria, appeals the denial by the Board of Immigration Appeals (the BIA) of his petition for asylum. We remand.

The parties are familiar with the facts. We proceed to issues of law. First, the BIA erred in its credibility determination by treating as central to Dimitrov’s claims the evidence of his ethnicity as a Gypsy.