Legal Opinion
Peter Toptchev and Tania Toptcheva v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 3, 2002No. 01-1508PublishedCited by 97 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge. ‘
Petitioners Peter Toptchev and Tania Toptcheva, husband and wife, are natives and citizens of Bulgaria. After they entered this country without inspection in 1993, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) placed them in deportation proceedings. Petitioners .conceded that they were subject to deportation but sought asylum or withholding of deportation based on a number of adverse experiences in Bulgaria that they ascribe to official persecution based on Toptchev’s political and religious beliefs. The Immigration Judge (IJ) concluded that the…
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