Legal Opinion
Ioan Sofinet v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 23, 1999No. 98-2853PublishedCited by 131 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Ioan Sofinet is a 34-year-old Romanian who is seeking asylum in the United States. Thus far, he has been unsuccessful: first the Chicago office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) found him deportable and denied his petition for asylum, after a hearing before an immigration judge (“IJ”) and then the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirmed that determination. Next, Sofinet filed a notice of appeal to this court, as he is permitted to do under the Immigration and Naturalization Act (“INA”) § 106(a), 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a), and he sought a stay…
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