Legal Opinion
Mohammad Reza Youssefinia and Fahime Asadamraji v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 14, 1986No. 85-4290PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
This case comes before us on a petition for review of a denial of applications for asylum and suspension of deportation by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Because we find that the immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals did not abuse their discretion in determining that petitioners failed to establish either a well-founded fear of persecution or extreme hardship resulting from deportation, we uphold the INS determination.
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Petitioners Mohammad Reza Youssefinia and Fahime Asadamraji are natives and citizens of Iran. Youssefinia…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Immigration & Naturalization Service v. StevicSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jong Ha WangSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Cheng Fan Kwok v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Luz Marina Cardoza-Fonseca v. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Francisca Rosa Arguello-Salguera v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1985
- Rene Carvajal-Munoz v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1984
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3Cited by19 opinions
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- William Alexander Alvarez-Flores v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1990
- Jan Zalega v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1990
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