Legal Opinion
Viollca Brucaj v. John D. Ashcroft
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 20, 2004No. 03-3645PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Viollca Brucaj seeks review of an adverse decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (the “BIA” or “Board”) that denied her request for asylum. For the reasons set forth in the following opinion, we grant the petition, reverse the decision of the BIA and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
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BACKGROUND
A. Facts
Ms. Brucaj is an ethnic Albanian, a native of Kosovo and a citizen of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia-Montenegro). 1 She was born in Kline, Kosovo, where she lived until April 1999. Ms. Bru-caj resided with her parents…
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