United States Tenth Circuit

Evidence that asylum applicant lived in his country for at least 12 years without persecution is sufficient to support a finding that applicant has not suffered past persecution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/25/2001
• Published 07/25/2001

Judges

• TACHA, Chief Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, McKAY, and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kenneth H. Stern, (Stephanie Goldsborough, with him on the briefs), Stern & Elkind, Denver, CO, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Erin Albritton, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division (David W. Ogden, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and David V. Bernal, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, with her on the brief), United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.