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· 8/9/2004

Natasha Belishta Franc Belishta Desara Belishta v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General

Citations

  • 378 F.3d 1078
  • 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 16353
  • 2004 WL 1770145

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that humanitarian asylum requires a showing 2 of past persecution
  • holding that 8 C.F.R. § 1208.13(b)(l)(iii)(B
  • remanding for consideration of humanitarian grant where fear of future MOHAMMED v. GONZALES 3089 harm was not related to a protected ground
  • “[I]in order to be eligible for [humanitarian] asylum . . . , an applicant must still establish past persecution on account of a protected ground.”
  • in order to be eligible for humanitarian asylum, “an applicant must still establish past persecution on account of a protected ground”
  • not- ing that the humanitarian asylum exception “provides for discretionary grants of asylum to victims of past persecution who no longer reasonably fear future persecution on account of a protected ground”

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Judges: Reavley, Fletcher, Tallman

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