Legal Opinion
Quevedo v. Ashcroft
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 17, 2003No. 02-2227PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Julio Cesar Quevedo (“Queve-do”) is a Guatemalan native and citizen who entered the country in 1991 and who applied for asylum in 1996 based on both past persecution and a fear of future persecution, arising from his membership in an agrarian cooperative in Guatemala. His wife, Megdy Perez de Quevedo, who entered illegally in 1993, also applied for asylum. It is conceded that her asylum status is dependent on her husband’s. An Immigration Judge found that Quevedo had suffered past persecution, but denied his asylum application because of the insignificance of…
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3Cited by21 opinions
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