Legal Opinion
Tsegay v. Ashcroft
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided October 26, 2004No. 02-9577PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge’.
Petitioner Teshai Hogos " Tsegay was born in 1954 in a region of Ethiopia that later became part of the country óf Eritrea. Though raised as an Orthodox Christian, in 1986 she converted to the Jehovah’s Witnesses religion. After being persecuted by government officials for her religious activities as a Jehovah’s Witness, she fled Eritrea and legally entered the United States in 1996 on a six-mon]th temporary visa.
In 1997, her temporary visa expired. She lived without proper documentation for two years, and then applied for asylum in 1999. An immigration judge…
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