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Tag Archives: Immigration Digest

Immigration – Asylum – Zimbabwe

U.S. Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit Civil Immigration – Asylum – Zimbabwe Where the BIA did not adequately consider whether more corroborating information was reasonably available, it was error to find that an asylum claimant failed to show past persecution. “Evidence of country conditions ‘cannot substitute for an individualized determination of an asylum or withholding claim,’ Zheng v. ...

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Immigration – asylum — Bulgaria

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit Civil Immigration – asylum — Bulgaria Where there is no pattern or practice of mistreatment of the Roma people in Bulgaria, asylum was properly denied. “In Mitreva, we were also faced with a Roma asylum-seeker from Bulgaria. The conditions on the ground for the Bulgarian Roma then were similar to what they ...

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