United States Ninth Circuit

Petition for review of a decision denying Ukrainian national asylum and withholding of removal is granted where petitioner suffered past persecution because of his political opinion, he had shown a genuine and well-founded fear of future persecution should he return to the Ukraine, and thus, he was eligible for asylum and entitled to withholding relief.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/16/2006
• Decided 03/02/2007
• Published 03/02/2007

Judges

• FISHER, Circuit Judge., Before JOHN R. GIBSON,RAYMOND C. FISHER, and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Tatyana A. Edwards, San Diego, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Terri J. Scadron, Assistant Director, Genevieve Holm, Attorney, and Surell Brady (argued), Attorney, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.