Valentin Boykov and Krassimira Boykova v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

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• explaining that past unfulfilled threats to a petitioner may be “indicative of the danger of future persecution”
• explaining that past unfulfilled threats to a petitioner may be “indicative of the danger of future persecution”
• explaining that past unfulfilled threats to a petitioner may be “indicative of the danger of future persecution”
• stating that in a vast majority of cases “mere threats will not, in and of themselves, compel a finding of past persecution”
• upholding BIA’s determination that vague testimony about anonymous phone threats was insufficient to establish fear of future persecution
• explaining that the petitioner did not suffer past persecution and his failure to present evi- dence showing his treatment would be any worse in the fu- ture undermined his claim to having a well-founded fear of future persecution

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