Emil Roman and Dochita Roman, 1 v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, and Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States

How courts have described this case

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• noting that an applicant must only show that the government condoned persecution or demonstrated an inability to protect victims
• noting that “many of the past incidents identified by [the petitioner] do not rise to the level of persecution under the statute and, thus, cannot form the basis for a well-founded fear of persecution”
• requiring applicant to present specific facts in order to meet his burden of establishing fear of persecution
• placing burden on asylum applicant to prove elig- ibility for asylum by proffering sufficient evidence to support her claim
• distinguishing petitioners’ request for asylum nunc pro tunc with relief sought in Batanic because there the petitioner “was unequivocally barred from seeking asylum”
• finding no well-founded fear of future persecution in Romania due to changed conditions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).