Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia Related to Asylum-seekers:refugee status ref·u·gee (rĕf′yo͝o-jē′) n. One who flees, especially to another country, seeking refuge from war, political oppression, religious persecution, or a natural disaster. ...
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron's government on Wednesday presented a bill to enforce tougher immigration rules, decried by human rights organizations as repressive toward asylum-seekers. The bill, presented at a Cabinet meeting, aims at accelerating the expulsion of people who ...
However,experts believe the majority of Britain's regulations for the treatment of asylum-seekers will stay the samein spite of Brexit.That's because both the UK and EU's rules are based on international law from the UN's refugee convention, which ensures a refugee's right to a...
Immigration Department advised up to 700 asylum seekers “must” be granted permanent protection Scott Morrison agreed to “mitigation strategies” including asking ASIO to slow down security checks so deadlines would be missed Without intervention, 30 extra asylum seekers a week could have been granted...
RIGHTS-U.S.: IMMIGRATION RULES PUTTING ASYLUM-SEEKERS AT RISKJim Lobe
WASHINGTON — The federal government says procedural changes planned by the United States to tighten rules for asylum seekers coming from Canada are in line with the Safe Third Country Agreement. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada spokesperson Matthew Krupovich said the changes “do not impac...
Immigration officials also plan to deploy as many as 1,000 asylum officers to conduct expedited screenings for asylum seekers to more quickly determine whether someone meets the standard to stay in the U.S. Mayorkas said migrants taken into U.S. custody will be given an initial option to tur...
An administration official said the rules are designed to create uniform asylum eligibility standards and ensure "fairness and efficiency, not making it any easier or harder to get asylum." But advocates for asylum-seekers said the regulations could help certain migrants, including women fleeing gende...
Asylum-seekers say joy over the end of the public health restriction known as Title 42 this month is turning into anguish with the realization of how the Biden administration’s new rules affect them. For many people, their fate is being largely left up
Joe Biden has ordered a tightening of the rules around illegal immigration across the US’s southern border with Mexico in an attempt to curb a jump in numbers and neutralise one of his biggest political weaknesses in the US election against Donald Trump. The US president announced executive act...