United States Second Circuit

Petition for review of denial of petitioner's claim for asylum is denied where petitioner did not establish that economic deprivations she suffered in Albania threatened her life or freedom, and thus, the deprivations did not rise to the level of persecution required for asylum eligibility.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/01/2005
• Published 12/01/2005

Judges

• Before:  WINTER, CABRANES, and POOLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel A. Eigerman, Roger J. Bernstein, New York, NY, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sarah Y. Lai, Assistant United States Attorney (David N. Kelley, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Kathy S. Marks, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Respondent.