The First Circuit has held that when an asylum applicant is found not credible due to a lack of corroborating evidence, she must given the opportunity to explain the absence of the corroboration. “Absent some statement by the IJ or the BIA indicating that Ixcuna-Garcia would not be credible even if she had proffered the necessary corroborating evidence, we can have no confidence that the IJ or the BIA would have come to the same credibility determination had Ixcuna-Garcia been provided an opportunity to either produce the required corroboration or explain why she reasonably could not.”
The full text of Ixcuna-Garcia v. Garland can be found here: