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FEDOSSEEVA v. GONZALES

No. 06-3216.

492 F.3d 840 (2007)

Tatiana FEDOSSEEVA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 5, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Yana Margolin (argued), Margolin & Associates, Deerfield, IL, for Petitioner.

Karen Lundgren, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Chief Counsel, Chicago, IL, Debora Gerads (argued), Department of Justice, Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before COFFEY, FLAUM, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

Tatiana Fedosseeva claims that she is "stateless" and thus entitled to asylum in the United States. Born and raised in Russia during the Soviet era, she moved to Latvia as an adult and stayed there after the Soviet Union dissolved. She argues that she is stateless because in 1993 she used her Soviet passport to depart Latvia for the United States without acquiring citizenship in either Latvia or Russia. An Immigration Judge ("IJ") denied Fedosseeva...

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