Rajinder Singh v. Gonzales

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RAJINDER SINGH, 

Petitioner, No. 03-71255 v.  Agency No.

A76-846-897

ALBERTO R. GONZALES, Attorney General, OPINION Respondent.  On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted February 14, 2006—San Francisco, California

Filed March 10, 2006

Before: Arthur L. Alarcón and M. Margaret McKeown, Circuit Judges, and H. Russel Holland,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Alarcón

*The Honorable H. Russel Holland, United States District Judge for the District of Alaska, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Hardeep S. Rai, Esq., Law Office of Hardeep S. Rai, San Francisco, California, for the petitioner.

Norah Ascoli Schwarz, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for the respondent. 2442 SINGH v. GONZALES

OPINION

ALARCÓN, Circuit Judge:

Rajinder Singh petitions for review of the Board of Immi- gration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision to deny his application for asylum and withholding of removal…