1985),[1] was a federal court case involving a 12-year-old who did not want to leave the United States and to return with his parents to the Ukrainian SSR.

Walter Polovchak was living in Chicago when his parents decided to return to Ukraine, then part of the USSR.

He objected, running away from his parents to the home of a cousin and requesting asylum, which prompted the case.

[2] The sympathetic Reagan administration allowed the legal proceedings to drag on for years, with the result that by the time a final decision was rendered, Polovchak had turned 18.

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