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Title: Melkonian V. Ashcroft
Author : Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
Release Date : January 04, 2003
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 66 KB

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Petitioner Arout Melkonian ("Melkonian"), an ethnic Armenian and a Christian, lived in Abkhazia, an autonomous region within Georgia, from his birth in 1959 until September of 1992, when he fled across the Russian border to escape kidnaping by ethnic-Abkhaz Separatists. He subsequently left Russia and, in early 1994, entered the United States illegally and applied for asylum and withholding of deportation under sections 208(a) and 243(h) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA"), 8 U.S.C. Â§Â§ 1158, 1253(h) (1994). The Immigration Judge ("IJ") denied his application, and the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirmed. Melkonian timely appealed.