Legal Opinion
Giedrius Leo Kazlauskas v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 27, 1995No. 92-70665PublishedCited by 214 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIGGINS, Circuit Judge:
OVERVIEW
Petitioner Giedrius Leo Kazlauskas was found deportable by an immigration judge (“IJ”) and Kazlauskas’ applications for asylum and temporary withholding of deportation were denied. The Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirmed the IJ’s decision, and Kazlauskas appeals. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1105a, and we affirm.
FACTS
Kazlauskas was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1964, when that country was controlled by the Soviet Union. Kazlauskas’ father had been a dissident and political prisoner in Soviet labor camps, where he died in 1975. Kazlauskas…
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