The First Circuit has found a record of sworn statement to be insufficiently reliable to sustain an adverse credibility determination where the statement listed a different name in the question and answer section than in the biographic information, listed an incorrect date of birth for the petitioner, and was signed by a border patrol officer months after the alleged encounter with the petitioner.

The full text of Menjivar Bonilla v. Garland can be found here:

http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/19-1165P-01A.pdf

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