Svetlana Galina and Viatcheslav Galin v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 2000-05-22

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POSNER, Chief Judge. Svetlana Galina and her husband have been ordered deported to Latvia. Although the Board of Immigration Appeals found that she had been persecuted in Latvia, from which the couple fled to the United States in 1994, the Board denied them application for asylum on the ground that she can have no reasonable fear of persecution if she is returned to Latvia becau…

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