AHMETOVIC v. I.N.S.

No. 1084, Docket 94-4145.

62 F.3d 48 (1995)

Begija AHMETOVIC, also known as Begi Ahonetajic, also known as Begi Ahmetovic, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 27, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela Goldberg, Cuny School of Law, Main Street Legal Services, Flushing, NY, for petitioner.

M. Chinta Gaston, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City (Mary Jo White, U.S. Atty., S.D.N.Y., Diogenes P. Kekatos, Steven I. Froot, Asst. U.S. Attys., New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

Before: WINTER and LEVAL, Circuit Judges, and SAND, District Judge.


WINTER, Circuit Judge:

Begija Ahmetovic, who now prefers to be known as Begije Mati, petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA"), which held that Mati is ineligible for political asylum under 8 C.F.R. § 208.14(c)(1) (1994) or withholding of deportation under 8 U.S.C. § 1253(h)(2)(B). We deny the petition.

BACKGROUND

Mati is an Albanian Moslem from Serbia. She came to the United States on May 25, 1979,...

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