Legal Opinion
Valentina Mitreva v. Alberto Gonzales
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 8, 2005No. 04-1707PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Valentina Mitreva, a Bulgarian and ethnic Rom (gypsy), applied for asylum on account of her nationality based on her participation in a rally for Romani equality that led to a confrontation with the police. The Immigration Judge (IJ) denied the application, which Mitreva’s family joined, and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) affirmed. The Board found that Mitreva failed to establish a nexus between the harm she suffered and a protected ground, and that she did not have a well-founded fear of future persecution because she could not prove that Bulgarian…
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