Garegin Ambartsoumian Nadia Ambartsoumian Karina Ambartsoumian Rimma Ambartsoumian v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States of America

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• holding that an alien failed to show persecution on account of ethnicity where police harassment occurred “mainly” because he had not obtained proper legal documents
• recognizing our precedent that “State department reports may constitute „substantial evidence‟ for the purposes of reviewing immigration decisions” (citations omitted)
• holding reliance on State Department Reports is “justifiable” as “substantial evidence” in immigration decisions
• discussing an applicant’s failure to show persecution where police harassment was “mainly because he had failed to obtain proper legal documents and permissions,” not on account of ethnicity
• declining to take judicial notice of subsequent State Department Reports under similar circumstances
• Country Reports are the “most appropriate” and “perhaps best resource” on country conditions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).