Legal Opinion
Soghomon Abovian Lousine Abovian Iskoui Abovian v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 11, 2000No. 98-70934PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge PREGERSON; Dissent by Judge WALLACE.
PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:
Soghomon Abovian, his wife Iskoui Abovian, and their twenty-three-year-old daughter Lousine are natives and citizens of Armenia. They petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeal’s (“BIA’s”) de novo decision denying their requests for asylum and withholding of deportation. Iskoui and Lousine Abovian are derivative applicants whose petitions depend exclusively on the merits of Soghomon Abovian’s (“Abovian’s”) petition. Although the Immigration Judge (“IJ”) made no credibility finding at all, the BIA made an…
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