Legal Opinion
Valentin Boykov and Krassimira Boykova v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 26, 1997No. 96-1879PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
Valentin Boykov and Krassimira Boykova seek to avoid deportation to their native country. Preferring to remain in the United States rather than to return to Bulgaria, a nation lately visited by economic instability and political uncertainty, the Boykovs ask us to vacate an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals upholding an immigration judge’s denial of their requests for asylum or withholding of deportation. We affirm.
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Valentin Boykov entered the United States on June 11, 1990 as a visitor for pleasure, authorized to remain until December 11 of the same year. Not one…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-FonsecaSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Djordje Kovac v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, John P. Boyd, District Director, Seattle, WashingtonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1969
- Nikola Mitev v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1995
- Jan Zalega v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1990
- Jenica Borca v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1996
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3Cited by77 opinions
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- Makhoul v. AshcroftCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2004
- Emil Roman and Dochita Roman, 1 v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, and Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2000
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