Legal Opinion
Vaso and Djela Perkovic v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 29, 1994No. 93-3200PublishedCited by 220 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtNelson, Circuit Judge, joined by Lively, Senior Circuit Judge,
KENNEDY, Circuit Judge (pp. 623-24), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.
This matter comes before us on a petition for review of an order in which the Board of Immigration Appeals reversed an immigration judge’s grant of asylum. The Board held that the petitioners were not eligible for asylum because they did not qualify as “refugees.” We conclude as a matter of law that the petitioners did qualify as refugees, and we shall therefore grant the petition for review.
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The petitioners, Vaso Perkovic and his sister, Djela Perkovic, are Yugoslavian citizens of…
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