Legal Opinion
Stanislaw Nowak v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 30, 1996No. 96-2163PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Stanislaw Nowak entered the United States in 1987 as a visitor for pleasure. When his visa expired he neither left nor applied for an extension. Instead he kept his head low until he was caught, and then he asked for asylum. Nowak’s theory was that he had been, and would continue to be, persecuted in his native Poland for assisting the Solidarity labor union. In August 1989, a year before an immigration judge denied No-wak’s request for asylum, Tadeusz Mazow-iecki, a leader of Solidarity, became Poland’s prime minister. In December 1990 Lech Walesa, the head of…
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