· 10/22/1997
Anguel Iliev and Elena Iliev v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Citations
- 127 F.3d 638
- 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 29086
- 1997 WL 655409
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that a dispute with a Bulgarian secret service agent over employment was “personal, not political”
- holding that a dispute with a Bulgarian secret service agent over employment was “personal, not political”
- concluding .that an asylum applicant’s dispute with a Bulgarian secret service agent was “personal, not political,” and rejecting the asylum application
- stating that IJs have “broad discretion to control the manner of interrogation in order to ascertain the truth”
- requiring petitioner to \demonstrate that his family was a particular target for persecution\ without requiring showing of additional protected ground
- applicant from family of pro-democracy activists faded to demonstrate that he would be singled out for persecution based on his membership in the family
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Judges: Cudahy, Ripple, Kanne
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