RUSU v. U.S. I.N.S.

No. 01-1776.

296 F.3d 316 (2002)

Constantin RUSU, Petitioner, v. U.S. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE; John Ashcroft, Attorney General, Respondents. American Immigration Law Foundation; American Immigration Lawyers Association; Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Incorporated; Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition; Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 22, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Michael Joseph Begland, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Virginia, for Petitioner. Afsaneh Ashley Tabaddor, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondents. Jungyoun Traci Hong, American Immigration Law Foundation, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae. ON BRIEF: E. Marie Tucker Diveley, Turner A. Broughton, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Virginia, for Petitioner. Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Allen W. Hausman, Senior Litigation, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondents.

Before WIDENER and KING, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.


Petition for review denied and judgment affirmed by published opinion. Judge KING wrote the opinion, in which Judge WIDENER and Senior Judge HAMILTON joined.

OPINION

KING, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Constantin Rusu seeks our review of the May 2001 Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (the "BIA") denying his application for asylum. Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals, File No. A 70 278 077 (BIA 2001) (the "BIA Order"). Rusu contends that...

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