United States Seventh Circuit

Petition for review of a denial of asylum and withholding of removal is denied where a claim of statelessness is not grounds for asylum, and substantial evidence supported the IJ's ruling that petitioner did not suffer past persecution or have an objectively reasonable fear of future persecution.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/13/2007
• Decided 07/05/2007
• Published 07/05/2007

Judges

• FLAUM, Circuit Judge., Before COFFEY, FLAUM, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Yana Margolin (argued), Margolin & Associates, Deerfield, IL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• 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.