· 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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