Haniyah

MEMORANDUM ***

Salee Samir Haniyah petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ determination, pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (d)(6), that her asylum application was frivolous. The determination was made after a hearing in which Haniyah had an opportunity to address the apparent misrepresentations that led to that determination. See Farah v. Ashcroft, 348 F.3d 1153, 1157-58 (9th Cir.2003). Her contention that she was denied such opportunity is not supported by the record. See Ahir v. Mukasey, 527 F.3d 912, 916 (9th Cir.2008); 8 C.F.R. § 208.20 .

The record also lacks support for any contention that the admission of her medical records in the asylum proceeding materially affected the propriety of the frivolousness determination. Haniyah withdrew the application for asylum, so the documents at issue could not have affected the outcome of that proceeding. The documents were cumulative evidence to support the frivolousness determination, and there was, in any event, no material violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accounting Act of 1996, 42 U.S.C. § 1320d, et seq., that would have required exclusion of the documents in an administrative proceeding. See 45…

dissenting:

I dissent. The petitioner — the mother of an eight-year-old, American-born United States citizen daughter — withdrew her asylum application before the Immigration Judge ruled on its merits. I would remand to the BIA in light of our decision in Chen v. Mukasey, 527 F.3d 935 (9th Cir.2008) (remanding to the BIA to interpret 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (d)(6) and to consider whether withdrawal of an asylum application *192 renders a subsequent finding of frivolousness moot).