Soroya Sharif v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• finding that economic hardship did not amount to persecution where alien lost one job but found another
• finding that economic hardship did not amount to persecution where alien lost one job but found another
• finding that applicant who traveled to United States freely and remained with the permission and assistance of the Iranian government cut against arguments that she would suffer persecution if she returned to Iran
• describing the cognizability of westernized Iranian women as a particular social group “debatable at best”
• upholding Board’s denial of asylum noting applicant’s family lived safely in Iran
• punishment for violating a country’s generally-applicable laws does not amount to persecution “absent some showing that the punishment is being administered for a nefarious purpose”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).