Legal Opinion
Vatulev v. Ashcroft
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 31, 2003No. 02-9573PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRISCOE, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Valentina Vatulev, a Moldovan citizen of Russian descent, seeks review of a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) order adopting the decision of an Immigration Judge (IJ) denying her application for asylum. Petitioner also applied for withholding of removal, but has focused exclusively on asylum ever since the IJ initially denied all relief. We hold that petitioner has failed to carry the heavy burden placed on those challenging adverse asylum determinations, and we therefore deny her petition for review. 1
To secure asylum, petitioner had to prove that she is a…
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