Sentences with phrase «sogi asylum claims»

This unexpected northward migration has overwhelmed Canada's system for processing asylum claims, leading to the worst delays in years.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said that asylum claims will be resolved «efficiently and expeditiously» but that the asylum - seekers should seek it in the first safe country they reach, including Mexico.

Many fights happen between migrants, who are coming into Europe searching for better economic opportunities — and will likely see their asylum claim rejected — and refugees, who are fleeing war and persecution and are almost guaranteed to have their asylum demand accepted.

Genuine Christians who've converted from Islam have had their asylum claims rejected and been sent back to their country of origin where they're at risk of experiencing family rejection, beatings and even death.

Upon arriving in the UK they lied about being Christians in order to pursue their asylum claim.

Mark Miller's church tries to guard against being used to pursue false asylum claims.

Gareth Wallace of the EA agrees churches everywhere have been vital to the wellbeing of people and even the success or failure of asylum claims.

«Ironically, for many of these refugees, the very circumstances that form the basis of their refugee / asylum claim have...

Since 1981, 20,000 Haitians have been interdicted, and only six have been allowed to pursue asylum claims.

It rejects asylum claims as a knee - jerk reaction, leaving it to judges to grant asylum on appeal, as they apply the proper legal decision - making procedure to the decision.

Somewhere between 60 and 72 inmates at the centre conducted a demonstration in the courtyard on Saturday night, in a protest against the use of fast - track detention to decide asylum claims.

Although Caroline's real life situation met the legal grounds for an asylum claim and she had a «well - founded fear of persecution», the current system made it more advantageous for her to fabricate a tale of sexual violence.

There is no evidence that support levels affect asylum claim numbers, however.

We received just three per cent of asylum claims made by lone children across Europe last year.

Section 95 support, which offers # 36.95 a week per person to families with children between failing an asylum claim and leaving the country or regularising their status, is being radically limited.

Freedom from Torture's Proving Torture report examined the mistreatment of torture evidence in asylum claims, and was launched late last year with cross-party Parliamentary support.

Research published by Freedom from Torture last year revealed how medical evidence relating to asylum claims by torture survivors is frequently mistreated by the Home Office, leading to people wrongly being refused asylum.

Freedom from Torture's expert clinicians document torture scars and psychological trauma in line with international standards as part of a torture survivor's asylum claim.

In addition, Freedom from Torture regularly supports torture survivors whose legal representation has previously been poor and as a result, vital medical evidence of torture has not been submitted as part of their asylum claim or appeal.

The authors suggest their greatest concern with the current asylum system relates to accommodation and financial support being withdrawn almost immediately after a negative decision has been made on an asylum claim.

Cyprus will process asylum claim, but will not grant visas to allow family member to join an asylum seeker.

Freedom from Torture's Proving Torture report has highlighted the Home Office's failure to take proper account of expert medical evidence when assessing asylum claims, regularly resulting in torture survivors like me being denied the protection we need.

At Cabinet the issue of asylum claims was discussed,» letters sent from May to No 10 seen by the Telegraph newspaper state.

In the past, asylum claims could be made (as gov.uk still suggests today) «at the UK border, if you make your claim as soon as you arrive».

The cardinal made the comments after visiting a Giuseppe Conlon House — a Catholic - led refuge for men waiting for a decision on their asylum claim.

Speaking in the afternoon, foreign secretary William Hague said the asylum claims was an attempt to sidestep a legal process.

Their asylum claim itself could also be jeopardised if the formal interviews upon which it depends are conducted while in detention.

You can't control how many Brits leave the country, you can't control EU migration, and asylum claims are subject to legal safeguards which restrict the government's ability to limit them.

Last summer, after months waiting for an interview, his asylum claim was rejected.

But if a refugee has a nuclear family member in another EU country, they can transfer their asylum claim to that country.

That requires European collaboration of the sort which the UK has persistently sabotaged, with fair, humane and efficient asylum claim mechanisms in place at ports of entry and a processing system which, unlike the detained fast - track, is not considered unfair to the point of being unlawful.

The Home Office has been accused of having «outdated» views on sexuality, after it rejected an asylum claim made by a Nigerian lesbian Nigerian Dating scam aka Nigerian romance scam, the database of Nigerian dating scammers with photos.

[3] The following year, the Dutch authorities, ironically the first country in the world to recognise in 1981 [4] the protection of gay men as a Particular Social Group under the 1951 Refugee Convention, [5] posed three questions to be addressed by the Court, through the prism of the 2004 Qualification Directive, [6] with respect to the asylum claims of 3 gay men from Senegal, Sierra Leone and Uganda: [7] Continue reading →

There are some legal situations that absolutely require a lawyer's assistance: indictable criminal charges, refugee and asylum claims, child protection matters, and others.

Regulation 343/2003 (the «Dublin Regulation») sets down criteria to determine which Member State is responsible for the examination of an asylum claim.

I mean it is pretty much the bread and butter of many asylum claims.

In essence, the Court was asked to identify which State was responsible for a child's asylum claim in situations where the child in question has lodged claims in more than one Member State and has no family members present in the territories of Member States.

Imagine, for example, an LRW problem that involved the asylum claim of a woman escaping from an abusive partner.

As, according to article 12 (2) of the Dublin regulation, the possession of a valid visa triggers the respective State's responsibility to treat the asylum claim, this means that «asylum shopping» (i.e. choosing the country which suits you best) would become possible again.

The model will also form the basis of a Chapter on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Credibility Assessment in the Second Volume of the Credo Project's «Credibility Assessment in Asylum Procedures», and has the objective of providing a humane approach to establishing an asylum claim based on sexual or gender identity.

As well as his asylum claim, he argued that his removal would be in breach of his rights under Arts 3 and 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

[18] «An investigation into the Home Office's Handling of Asylum Claims Made on the Grounds of Sexual Orientation: March — June 2014» Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (23 October 2014)[3.18 - 3.20, page 14] http://icinspector.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Investigation-into-the-Handling-of-Asylum-Claims-Final-Web.pdf (last accessed 7 December 2014).

This caused international outrage, resulting in the Home Secretary at the end - of March 2014 ordering an independent review of the Home Office's handling on LGB asylum claims, with a message that there should be a concentration on «sexual orientation and not sexual behaviour».

The Dutch Court will now have to re-examine the asylum claims of all three applicants.

Applicant A from Gambia, relying on sexual identity as the basis of his second asylum claim, consented to being subjected to a test, or perform a sexual act with another man, to «demonstrate the truth of his declared sexual orientation» [par.

The core point is that the applicant does not conform to a stereotype of heteronormative conduct held by the potential persecutor, hence the harm, and consequent asylum claim, they are «not straight enough».

The report, discussed later in this piece, has made various recommendations, including a model to address good practice in establishing a gay asylum claim — the DSSH Model.

He has an active pro-bono practice litigating immigration asylum claims, civil rights and Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, and has volunteered with the ACLU of Southern California, Bet Tzedek, and Public Counsel.

These areas included immigration (save for asylum claims or work carried out for those in immigration detention); employment (except where there is a discrimination claim); education (except for Special Educational Needs work); welfare benefits (except for appeals to the Upper Tribunal and onwards); debt; clinical negligence for the majority of adults and children; and personal injury.

Having not been able to address these issues in DBN v the United Kingdom, [39] due to the lack of contact the UK solicitors had with their client, the Strasbourg Court has not been able to address substantive asylum claims based on sexual identity since the earlier 2004 decisions in F v UK [40] and INN v the Netherlands [41].