Legal Opinion
Selman Alimi v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 10, 2004No. 03-1607, 03-4010PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Selman Alimi entered the United States in 1986 without inspection — in other words, by stealth. He was at the time a citizen of Yugoslavia. When that nation disintegrated, he became a citizen of what the United States calls the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Selman evaded detection in this nation for more than four years but in 1990 applied for asylum. He contends that as an ethnic Albanian, and a participant in an organization supporting civil rights for those similarly situated, he was the victim of persecution. In 1995 Selman’s wife Zimrije, and his…
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