Legal Opinion
Besime Kanacevic v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 5, 2006No. Docket 04-3878-AGPublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
Besime Kanacevic, a native and national of Montenegro, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ summary order denying her application for political asylum. We conclude that we have jurisdiction over the petition, and we deny review.
On November 16, 1999, at the age of seventeen, Kanacevic arrived in this country at the Los Angeles International Airport, bearing a fraudulent Slovenian passport. At the airport, she was detained and interviewed by United States Immigration officers. With the assistance of an interpreter, she gave a sworn statement in…
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