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AVETOVA-ELISSEVA v. I.N.S.

No. 98-70547.

213 F.3d 1192 (2000)

Maya AVETOVA-ELISSEVA, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 15, 2000.

As Amended June 26, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Austin Johnson, Bradford, Brady & Johnson, Provo, Utah, for the petitioner.

Marshall Tamor Golding, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.

Before: PREGERSON and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges, and SHADUR, District Judge.

Opinion by Judge SHADUR; Dissent by Judge WARDLAW.

SHADUR, District Judge:

Maya Avetova-Elisseva ("Avetova"), a 62 year-old Armenian native and citizen of both Azerbaijan and Russia, petitions for review of a final decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirming the denial by an immigration judge ("IJ") of her application for asylum and withholding of deportation. Avetova claims that she suffered persecution in Russia on account of her Armenian...

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