KANACEVIC v. I.N.S.

Docket No. 04-3878-AG.

448 F.3d 129 (2006)

Besime KANACEVIC, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: May 5, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam Gjoni, Law Office of Sam Gjoni, New York, New York, for Petitioner (on submission).

Scott A. Roetzel, Assistant United States Attorney, District of South Dakota (Michelle G. Tapken, United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota), for Respondent.

Before: JACOBS, WESLEY, and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Besime Kanacevic, a native and national of Montenegro, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' summary order denying her application for political asylum. We conclude that we have jurisdiction over the petition, and we deny review.

On November 16, 1999, at the age of seventeen, Kanacevic arrived in this country at the Los Angeles International Airport, bearing a fraudulent Slovenian passport. At the airport...

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