Legal Opinion
Hadi Alsheweikh v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 7, 1993No. 92-2276PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAGG, Circuit Judge.
Hadi Alsheweikh appeals an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying his request for political asylum. See 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a) (1988). Alsheweikh also seeks an order remanding his case to the BIA for consideration of additional evidence supporting his request for political asylum. See 28 U.S.C. § 2347(c) (1988). We affirm the BIA’s order and deny remand.
Alsheweikh, a Libyan citizen, entered the United States in 1979 as a nonimmigrant college exchange student funded by the Libyan government. Alsheweikh was supposed to return to Libya in 1982. When Alsheweikh…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-ZacariasSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Leconte Fleurinor v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- Homai Behzadpour v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1991
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