Legal Opinion
Balliu, Genti v. Gonzales, Alberto R.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 27, 2006No. 04-1468PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Asylum applicant Genti Balliu fled Koso-vo claiming that Serbian officials persecut ed him in retaliation for his participation in a pro-Albanian political organization. Because we find that the immigration judge misallocated the burden of demonstrating a well-founded fear of future persecution, we remand to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) to apply the correct presumption.
Balliu is a native and citizen of Kosovo, a province of the Republic of Serbia under civil and military administration by the United Nations. Born in 1975, Balliu, at the age of nineteen, joined…
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