Archive for the ‘Asylum’ Category
Monday, October 26th, 2009
A Mexican human rights official detained as an asylum seeker even though he never requested U.S. protection has been released by immigration authorities. Gustavo de la Rosa Hickerson’s attorney Carlos Spector said the U.S. government would not pursue asylum for De la Rosa after freeing him Wednesday. Carlos Spector said, ...
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Exercising powers under section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, President Barack Obama has made certain determinations and authorizations concerning refugee admission numbers during FY 2010. The number is fixed at 80,000 refugees allocated among refugees of special humanitarian concern to the U.S. in accordance with the following regional ...
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Praising the initiative taken by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to allow abused women seek asylum in U.S., the American Bar Association (ABA), President H. Thomas Wells, Jr., gave a statement. His statement came after the DHS recently filed a legal brief that recognizes that victims of domestic violence, ...
Posted in Addressing Crimes, Asylum, Asylum in U.S., Domestic Violence, Largest Voluntary Professional Membership Org., Protection to Women, Vulnerable Women | No Comments »
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Immigration Statistics has released an Annual Flow Report showing trends, characteristics and statistical information on the number of persons admitted to the United States as refugees or granted asylum in the United States during the fiscal year 2008. According to the report, ...
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Asylum Division Chief Joseph E. Langlois has issued a memorandum to all USCIS Asylum Offices regarding the implementation of a statutory change providing USCIS with initial jurisdiction over asylum applications filed by unaccompanied minor children. The implementation procedures discussed in the memorandum ...
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
In a move to increase the efficiency of Department of State (DOS) review of asylum applications, the Department of Homeland Security has amended its regulations changing the process by which it forwards Form I-589, application for asylum and withholding of removal, for asylum applications filed affirmatively with U.S. Citizenship and ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Carrying out the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA), US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has laid down new procedures, allowing Unaccompanied Alien children (UAC) in Removal proceedings to start asylum process in a non-adversarial setting. The Service also announced that from now onwards they will ...
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
The Third Judicial Circuit recently upheld Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) and Immigration Judge (IJ) decisions denying asylum to a Chinese national by overruling Sun Wen Chen’s precedent. Guang Lin-Zheng filed an asylum claim petition seeking refuge in US, asserting that he and his wife, who remains in China, have ...
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Granting yet another petition for review, the Ninth Circuit remanded Petitioner Rodrigo Chavez Gomez’s case to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) for further proceeding. The petitioner sought review of BIA’s final decision affirming an Immigration Judge’s (IJ) denial of asylum and withholding of deportation.
While disposing Gomez’s petition, Ninth Circuit ...
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Department of State (DOS)announced that the process of admitting Iraqi refugees and their resettlement in the United States has been streamlined, while ensuring highest level of security. The DHS and DOS administer this process cooperatively and continue their efforts of resettling vulnerable ...
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