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· 5/30/1997

Igor Bereza v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

Citations

  • 115 F.3d 468
  • 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 12629
  • 1997 WL 286142

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that to constitute persecution, con- duct must amount to more than mere harassment
  • stating that an alien’s six-to-seven-month interim return without incident sup ports the conclusion that his “fear of persecution is not well-founded”
  • six- to seven-month return visit to Ukraine without incident supported BIA’s finding that petitioner did not have a well- founded fear of future persecution
  • mother’s imprisonment did not amount to persecution of petitioner

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Posner, Eschbach, Manion

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