...of this section. (2) An application for withholding of deportation shall be denied if: (i) The alien ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated...account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion; (ii) The alien, having been convicted by a final...

...section 101(a)(42) of the Act; (ii) Has been firmly resettled in a foreign country; (iii) That the alien ordered, incited, assisted or otherwise participated...account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular group, or political opinion; (iv) The alien, having been convicted by a final judgment...

...(D) Has been convicted of an aggravated felony, as defined in section 101(a)(43) of the Act; or (E) Ordered, Incited, assisted, or otherwise participated...the persecution of any person on account of race, religión, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. (ii) If the...

...removed, so that refugees from any country of the world are eligible if outside their country because of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality,...particular social group or political •opinion. The new definition is basically that employed in the UN Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status...

...asylum where a person is unwilling to return to his or her home country "because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race,...particular social group, or political opinion." The INS standard required that an applicant prove that "it is more likely than not" he or she will be persecuted...

...country of nationality who Is unable or unwilling to return to that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race,...particular social group, or political opinion. The Act requires that a person seeking entry into the United States as a refugee or seeking to adjust to...

...Paragraph (1) shall not apply to an alien if the Attorney General determines that— (i) the alien ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated...account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion; (ii) the alien, having been convicted by a final...

...nationality, within the country in which such person is habitually residing, and who is persecuted or who has a well-founded fear of persecution on account...account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.". (b) Chapter 1 of title II of such Act is amended...

...country of nationality who is unable or unwilling to return to that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race,...particular social group, or political opinion. The Act requires that a person seeking entry into the United States as a refugee or seeking to adjust to...

...and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of, that country because of a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race,...particular social group, or political opinion . . . ." The expansion of the definition to eliminate ideological and geographical restrictions was intended to...