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October 26, 1998
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A U.S. appeals court approved the asylum request of a Jewish woman who said she received repeated death threats in her native Ukraine. Vera Korablina arrived in the United States on a tourist visa in 1995 and applied for asylum on the grounds that she would be persecuted if she returned to Kiev, according to her lawyer. U.S. immigration authorities twice rejected her request on the grounds that the beatings and death threats she experienced in Ukraine did not meet the standard for persecution.

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