Akatsavanh Manivong v. District Director, U.S. Department of Justice Immigration & Naturalization Service

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• concluding that the fact that relatives still reside in country, without incident, undermines reasonableness of alien’s fear of persecution
• concluding that the petitioner, a citizen of Laos who spent almost one year in a labor camp because of his anti-Communist opinions, “was at one time the victim of persecution”
• noting fear of future persecution may not be objectively reasonable if immigrant attends school and works in home country and family lives there for years without incident
• noting fear of future persecution may not be objectively reasonable if -4- immigrant attends school and works in his home country and his family lives there for years without incident
• affirming in part where petitioner’s father and children remained in home country without incident
• affirming in part where petitioner’s father and children remained in home country without incident

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).