The Court of Justice rephrases the notion that an asylum applicant is expected to refrain from religious expressions as ‘renouncing the protection’ refugee law ‘is intended to afford’. In conformity with this, it rules that what states have to determine is whether ‘upon his return to his...
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Once asylum is granted, a person has the right to live and work in the US for the rest of his or her life. If the asylee has a spouse or a young, unmarried child outside of the US, he or she can apply to get them a visa to enter the US. After a year of being in the US...
Once granted, asylees are given permission to work and may apply for a green card. What Is Membership in a Particular Social Group? An applicant for asylum or withholding of removal seeking relief based on “membership in a particular social group” must establish that the group is each of ...
No specific accusation against the applicant for refugee status is required for political crimes,or for common crimes committed for political purposes, or when the extradition is requested rightsas a citizen, such as the freedom to circulate and reside, to work without restrictions, toIza, ...
Caseworkers are positioned to support individuals that have been rejected asylum through caseworkers’ attentiveness toward “new and substantial information”. This can impact data quality in important ways, including shaping what data about the applicant are being produced and how they are shared ...
founded fear of future persecution based on race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. It also serves to request withholding of removal, a form of protection that prevents deportation to a country where the applicant’s life or freedom would be at...
She and her family had been living in neighbouring Iran without residence permits, meaning they had no right work and she could not receive an education. She fled Iran before filing an asylum request in Austria. "She (FN) said that if she returned to Afghanistan, as...
An assumption is made by the immigration authorities that even if an asylum seeker is housed in a Swedish-dominant area, they should not regard this as the final destination; an equal assumption holds that even if the asylum claim happens to be successful the applicant will move to a city ...
[4] The wait for those pending cases has ballooned to nearly five years.[5] The proposed rule would ease the administrative burden by allowing asylum officers within USCIS to initially adjudicate whether an applicant would be entitled to asylum, withholding of removal, or protection under the ...