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ABOVIAN v. I.N.S.

No. 98-70934.

219 F.3d 972 (2000)

Soghomon ABOVIAN; Lousine Abovian; Iskoui Abovian, Petitioners, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 19, 2000

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Yeu S. Hong, Popkin, Shamir & Golan, Los Angeles, California, for the petitioners.

Robbin K. Blaya, Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.

Before: WALLACE, PREGERSON, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge PREGERSON; Dissent by Judge WALLACE.

PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:

Soghomon Abovian, his wife Iskoui Abovian, and their twenty-three-year-old daughter Lousine are natives and citizens of Armenia. They petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeal's ("BIA's") de novo decision denying their requests for asylum and withholding of deportation. Iskoui and Lousine Abovian are derivative applicants whose petitions depend exclusively on the merits...

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