United States Seventh Circuit

Petitions to reopen the asylum claims of two Muslims and ethnic Albanians were properly denied. Their eligibility for military service in the Kosovar conflict does not rise to the level of persecution; they failed to establish a prima facie case that they would be persecuted because of their ethnic minority status.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/10/2003
• Decided 04/28/2004
• Published 04/28/2004

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, MANION, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mary L. Sfasciotti (Argued), Chicago, IL, M. Jocelyn Lopez-Wright, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• George P. Katsivalis, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the District Counsel, Chicago, IL, Jamie M. Dowd (Argued), Department of Justice, Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondents.