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• holding that denial of indefinite continuance following multiple prior continuances was not an abuse of discretion
• finding that the asylum applicant had a well-founded fear where death threats began three years before applicant fled and applicant received no death threats during the last five months in her country
• noting that there is no “rule that if the departure was a considerable time after the first threat, then the fear was not genuine or well founded”
• noting that there is no “rule that if the departure was a con- siderable time after the first threat, then the fear was not genu- ine or well founded”
• loss of ration card and business’s inability to buy inventory constitute economic persecution
• no abuse of discretion in denying request for continuance where multiple continuances had already been granted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).