United States Eighth Circuit

Petition for review of a denial of an asylum application is denied where the DHS's failure to process petitioner's asylum application for nine years did not constitute affirmative misconduct, thus the government cannot be estopped from denying his application.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/25/2007
• Published 07/25/2007

Judges

• BOWMAN, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, BOWMAN, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Counsel who represented the petitioner was Sandrine Lisk of Wichita, KS.


• For Appellees:
  
• Counsel who represented the respondent was Mary Jo Madigan, AUSA, of Minneapolis, MN.