In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.

that the situation had changed for the worse. See Zheng Zhong Chen v. Gonzales, 437 F.3d 267, 269 (2d Cir.2006). For example, the 2006 Country Report that Palaj submitted states that arrest and pretrial detention conditions "continued to be an area of great concern," that police corruption and impunity "continued" to be a problem, and that the country "continued to experience high levels of societal killings" and "remained" a source for trafficking of women and children. Further, the BIA properly found unpersuasive Palaj's and her husband's affidavits attesting that Palaj's brother had experienced recent difficulties in Albania, where neither Palaj or her husband had personal knowledge of these incidents. See Xiao Ji Chen v. U.S. Dep't of Justice, 471 F.3d 315, 341-42 (2d Cir.2006) (<HOLDING>). To the extent Palaj moved to reopen based on
Holding statements: (A) holding that the weight afforded to the applicants evidence in immigration proceedings lies largely within the discretion of the ij (B) holding that the weight afforded to the evidence lies largely within the agencys discretion (C) holding that the weight accorded to documentary evidence lies largely within the ijs discretion (D) holding that the decision as to the weight to be afforded to documentary evidence lies largely within the discretion of the ij (E) holding that the weight afforded to the applicants evidence in immigration proceedings lies largely within the discretion of the agency
(D)