United States Third Circuit

Firm resettlement under 8 CFR 208.15, precluding the Attorney General from granting asylum to an immigrant, is based primarily upon an offer of permanent resident status or citizenship and does not require a "totality of the circumstances" analysis.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/18/2000
• Decided 03/07/2001
• Published 03/07/2001

Judges

• Before:  BECKER, Chief Judge, NYGAARD and FUENTES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Olga Narymsky, (Argued), Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, New York, NY, Amy Gottlieb, American Friends, Service Committee, Newark, NJ, Counsel for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• David W. Ogden, Assistant Attorney General, Richard M. Evans, Assistant Director, Paul Fiorino, (Argued), Michael P. Lindemann, Alison M. Igoe, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Counsel for Respondent.