Legal Opinion
Vitalik K. Boudaguian Ofelia R. Boudaguian Khristofor v. Boudaguian Kristina v. Boudaguian v. John D. Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 22, 2004No. 02-4094PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Chief Judge.
Vitalik Boudaguian and his wife Ofelia are ethnic Armenians who were born in Azerbaijan and who moved in 1982 to another republic of the Soviet Union, Latvia, after Vitalik completed his Soviet military obligation and received a degree from a college in Yerevan, Armenia. The Boud-aguians’ two children, Khristofor and Khristina, were born in Latvia. The four family members entered the United States from Latvia in 1995, overstayed their tourist visas, and applied for asylum and withholding of removal, contending that, as Russian-speaking ethnic Armenians, they faced constant…
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