ANGOUCHEVA v. I.N.S.

No. 95-2370.

106 F.3d 781 (1997)

Natasha ANGOUCHEVA, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 11, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary E. Welsh (argued), for Natasha Angoucheva.

Janet Reno, U.S. Attorney General, Washington, DC, Samuel Der-Yeghiayan, I.N.S., Chicago, IL, James B. Burns, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Chicago, IL, Richard M. Evans, William J. Howard, Donald A. Couvillon, Francesco Isgro, David M. McConnell, Stephen W. Funk, Terri J. Lavi (argued), Department of Justice, Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for I.N.S.

Nancy Kelly, Women Refugees Program, Cambridge & Somerville Legal Services, Cambridge, MA, for amicus curiae, Women Refugees Project of Harvard Law School.

Before COFFEY, MANION, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Natasha Angoucheva, a Bulgarian woman of Macedonian descent, petitions for review of a final order of deportation that denied her applications for asylum and withholding of deportation. Adopting the findings and conclusions of the Immigration Judge ("IJ"), the Board of Immigration Appeals (the "BIA" or "Board") determined that Angoucheva was ineligible for asylum because she had not established that she had been persecuted prior to leaving Bulgaria or...

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