United States Eighth Circuit

Petition for review of orders denying Hungarian citizens' applications for asylum and withholding of removal is denied where: 1) petitioners did not apply for asylum within one year of entering the United States and failed to show extraordinary circumstances excusing such failure; and 2) despite the purported harassment and discrimination suffered at school and work in their native country, petitioners failed to prove past physical or economic persecution to show a clear probability of future persecution should they be removed to Hungary.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/28/2008
• Published 05/28/2008

Judges

• LOKEN, Chief Judge., Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, HANSEN and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Timothy E. Wichmer, St. Louis, MO, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jennifer L. Lightbody, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., Anh-Thu P. Mai, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice and Janette Allen, Summer Law Intern, on the brief, Washington, D.C., for respondent.