Ioan Sofinet v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1999-08-23

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DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge. Ioan Sofinet is a 34-year-old Romanian who is seeking asylum in the United States. Thus far, he has been unsuccessful: first the Chicago office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) found him deportable and denied his petition for asylum, after a hearing before an immigration judge (“IJ”) and then the Board of Immigration Appeals (“B…

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