Legal Opinion
Volodymyr Fisher Irina Nikolaeva v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 28, 2002No. 01-1833PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
The question for review is whether Volo-dymyr Fisher and his wife, Irina Nikolae-va, have established that they qualify as refugees from religious or ethnic persecution. Fisher and Nikolaeva applied for asylum in the United States, claiming past persecution and a well-founded fear that they would suffer future persecution on account of Fisher’s German ethnicity and Lutheran religion if they were repatriated to the Ukraine. An Immigration Judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals denied their application on the ground that the record established only ethnic or religious…
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