Legal Opinion
Miltcho Gramatikov, Ivaylo Gramatikov and Vesselin Gramatikov v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 3, 1997No. 97-1453PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
A father and two sons, all illegal immigrants from Bulgaria, were denied asylum and have appealed. They claim to have been persecuted in Bulgaria because of their opposition to communism and to fear that if they return there they will again be persecuted because even though Bulgaria formally abandoned communism in' 1989 along with the rest of the Soviet Union’s European satellites, the “samé people” are, according to the Gramatikovs, still in charge.
We do not understand the Gramatikovs to be arguing that the persecution they experienced in Bulgaria was so severe that they…
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- Wladyslaw Felzcerek v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1996
- Henry v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1996
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