Elma Mullai v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that petitioner’s waiting over three months to leave a country weakens her case for past persecution
• holding that the applicant had not demonstrated past persecution and therefore was not eligible for a grant of asylum on humanitarian grounds
• holding that IJ may rely upon State Department reports
• noting that, with respect to an alien who entered the United States in October 1996, “changed country conditions rebut the presumption of a well-founded fear of future persecution in Albania”
• denying petition where applicant’s “treatment by the Communist government could be reasonably viewed as motivated by her status as a protester rather than religious persecution”
• “Because the lesser standard for establishing asylum eludes [petitioner], we conclude that she cannot meet the more stringent requirements for withholding of removal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).