United States Seventh Circuit

Petition for review of a denial of an application for asylum is denied where an asylum application based on a change in personal circumstances that is filed after the entry of a removal order and after the deadline to file a motion to reopen removal proceedings has passed is evaluated under the rules for an untimely reopening of removal proceedings, which do not take a change in personal circumstances into account.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/18/2007
• Decided 08/23/2007
• Published 08/23/2007

Judges

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

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Theodore N. Cox, Joshua Bardavid (argued), New York, NY, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Karen Lundgren, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Chief Counsel, Chicago, IL, Greg D. Mack (argued), Department of Justice, Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.