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· 5/14/1991

Hasan Balazoski v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

Citations

  • 932 F.2d 638
  • 1991 U.S. App. LEXIS 9738
  • 1991 WL 76000

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that questioning and detention of family and searching family home were not sufficient to establish a well-founded fear of persecution
  • holding that questioning and detention of family and searching family home were not sufficient to establish a well-founded fear of persecution
  • affirming the BIA's denial of asylum of an ethnic Albanian citizen of Yugoslavia despite his native government's interrogation,detention, and search of his family
  • defining persecution as more than merely facing harassment in the form of questioning for participation in a protest march
  • “Whether the IJ used the incorrect legal standard is irrelevant. We review the decision of the BIA, not the IJ.”

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Judges: Cummings, Flaum, Grant

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