Legal Opinion
Adnan Issaq v. Eric Holder, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 17, 2010No. 09-2288PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
In 1997, Adnan Issaq, a citizen of Iraq, moved with his parents and three siblings from Syria to the United States, where they were admitted as refugees. Issaq and his family are Christians of Assyrian descent. His father, a native of Iraq, and his mother, a Syrian, were married in Syria but settled in Baghdad, Iraq, where Issaq was born in 1978. Fearing religious persecution, Issaq’s parents took the family to Syria in 1991. There they remained through late 1997, until their application for refugee status was approved and they came to the United States. Once here, the…
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