Questions tagged [asylum]
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What happens if someone requests asylum in Vatican City?
Suppose someone were to enter Vatican City and request asylum. Vatican City is a highly unusual country and I’m not sure what would happen. Are they a party to any treaties that would require them to process the claim? If so, how would this be…
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What happens if a refugee continues to be threatened in their host country?
Suppose a person seeks asylum in a new country, like the US or in Europe. But after they get there they find that the people who were threatening them in their home country, for example as part of a gang, have members working in their asylum…
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When can one flee a state that is becoming more authoritarian
Britain is undeniably becoming more authoritarian by the day. The government has stripped an unprecedented number of rights from its citizens in the last few years and continues to do so. For instance, the government is about to place significant…
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A tourist can request political asylum?
Some countries like Uruguay accept political asylum request ONLY if the person enters the country illegally, for those with tourist visa they have a way more complex mechanism. But generally speaking, since each country is a micro universe in laws,…
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Can “being a woman” be grounds for a valid asylum claim?
In many cultures around the world, women and girls are still completely subservient to men, to the point where forced marriage and pregnancy are still highly prevalent, and women can be divorced or killed on the mere word of a man.
Can a woman from…
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Is criminal prosecution of asylum seekers who entered the US illegally a violation of the Refugee Convention?
The United States is a party to the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, and Article 1, paragraph 1 of that protocol incorporates Articles 2-34 of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. Article 31, paragraph 1 of the…
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Can I claim asylum after I land in New Zealand with visit visa?
I'm having the following situation:
My home country has been in civil unrest for about 7 years, you may guess the name.. And because of my age I am under the risk of being immediately take into forced military service upon my return. I am also known…
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Can I claim asylum inside New Zealand but not at the port of entry?
I'll head to New Zealand as I don't need a visa to travel there. I'm persecuted in my home country and after having enough (really enough) I'm leaving soon. I'll enter New Zealand by airport.
Can I claim asylum after I leave the airport in New…
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What law provides for asylum cases to proceed while IJ may move to close a case administratively on the basis of T-visa or other relief being sought?
Alice enters the U.S. and files for asylum with a case bound to prevail. However, while waiting to be interviewed, she gets kidnapped, and afterwards trafficked for labor and sex while continuously falsely imprisoned and held confined by…
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Conflicting State Obligations
Let's say a State has two obligation, on one hand, it must return a person to country of origin under treaty law, on the other hand, the person seeks asylum and thus, under 1951 convention principle of "non-refoulement" applies.
does it matter that…
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US Travel restrictions after withdrawal of US asylum application/Canadian PR application, Waiting for asylum interview in US
I am a permanent resident of Canada. My girlfriend and I plan to marry in the USA soon.
She has been waiting for her asylum interview in the USA; she has already obtained her USA work permit and Social Security Number. Here are some of our…
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Is there any International Law that protects the rights of a defector spy?
I refer to the extraordinary case of Wang Liqiang, a man who is trying to claim political asylum in Australia. He claims that he was a spy working for the Chinese Communist Party. Then he fled to Australia and gave signed evidence to ASIO [the…
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Could the US First Amendment be used as grounds for asylum?
Different countries have different laws on what kind of speech is permitted, and the laws of the United States are very permissive, with only minimal speech restrictions. Even though the First Amendment also protects religious freedom, that is a…
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Is an asylee applicant exempt from buying a health coverage?
According to Obamacare non residents are exempt from mandatory health coverage.
Based on the Marketplace regulation:
Applicants for asylum are eligible for Marketplace coverage only if they’ve been granted employment authorization or are under the…
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Is the U.S. Dep't of State yearly Report on Human Rights Practices deemed part of the record by the operation of law or you must cite it?
The reports are lengthy, ranging between ca. 20-70 pages for a particular country, and the greatest use of it is to draw an inference from the admissive assertion relative generally to torture and asylum-protected persecution tendencies to establish…
