Vera KORABLINA, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent

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• holding that the conjunction of social unrest and a credible threat on a petitioner’s life satisfied the past-persecution standard
• holding that the loss of an employment opportunity and career obstacles because of anti-Semitism amounted to race-based persecution
• holding that the conjunction of social unrest and a credible threat on a petitioner’s life satisfied the past-persecution standard
• holding that even if the individual harms suffered by the applicant may not rise to the level of persecution in isolation, the cumulative effect of harms and abuses may support a claim for asylum
• finding that applicant suffered persecution where she witnessed a violent attack on her boss, was tied to a chair with a noose around her neck, and was threatened with death
• holding that where “evidence of a specific threat on an alien’s life . . . is presented in conjunction with evidence of political and social turmoil, the alien has succeeded in estab- lishing a prima facie eligibility for asylum”

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