Immigration Asylum.

Byline: Derek Hawkins

7thCircuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Nadia Bohdanivna Chuchman v. Merrick B. Garland

Case No.: 20-3205

Officials: EASTERBROOK, KANNE, and KIRSCH, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Immigration Asylum

Nadiia Chuchman, a citizen of Ukraine, appeals the denial of her application for asylum based on political opinion. She maintains that the Ukrainian government persecuted her nearly a decade ago for her political activity in opposing the former president. She primarily argues that the Immigration Judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals erred in finding that she had not experienced past persecution after government actors beat her severely, detained her for a day, and pressured her university's dean to expel her if she remained politically active. She also maintains that they ignored evidence of ongoing corruption in Ukraine when finding that her political party's rise to power...