Sentences with phrase «asylum applications»

"Asylum applications" refers to formal requests made by individuals who are seeking protection and refuge in another country because they fear persecution or danger in their home country. Full definition
This trend started in the early 2000s, the point at which the number of asylum applications in the UK peaked.
As a result, they are due to agree that the U.K. will speed up the process of asylum application for those migrants waiting at the French border and will increase contributions toward transport security.
Historian Robert Wilder visited the new processing centre for asylum applications in the same period and found «almost fifteen miles of unshelved paperwork waiting to be investigated».
Asylum might be a possibility, but some countries (e.g. the US) will not accept asylum applications from embassies; they must be made from US territory.
One of the conclusions reached in March was to allow police access to the Eurodac database of fingerprints, which was set up specifically to deal with asylum applications, and to the visa information system (Visa), which contains data on visa applications.
A new report has criticised the UKBA for rejecting asylum applications for spurious reasons and costing the tax - payer money when they are overturned on appeal.
Prosecutors said the lawyers submitted asylum applications, primarily for Indian and Romanian nationals, «containing fictitious stories of persecution that the clients had supposedly suffered in their home countries.»
Dipen participates in the Firm's pro bono work and has successfully represented clients in political asylum applications.
Just how important it would have been to include other regions was made clear by Briggs using one provocative question: «Why then don't asylum applications in cool Chile rise after heat waves in the warm neighboring countries?»»
The number of first - time asylum applications in Europe dropped by nearly half in 2017.
Crops grow best at an average temperature of 20 degrees C, and so not surprisingly, hotter than normal temperatures increased asylum applications in hotter places, such as Iraq and Pakistan, and lowered them in colder places such as Serbia and Peru.
In the UK there were only six asylum applications per 10,000 people — well below the European average of 26 applications per 10,000 people.
When that agreement ended in 2012, ICE demanded that Indonesian immigrants who had overstayed tourist visas and missed asylum application deadlines leave the US immediately.
Britain received the third most asylum applications in the world in 2004, according to a new report from the UN's refugee agency.
The UK seems to have been as popular as European neighbours like France, which received 6,657 asylum applications over the period and Spain, which received 5,554.
The study suggests that cutting emissions could partially stem the tide, but even under an optimistic scenario, Europe could see asylum applications rise by at least a quarter.
Schlenker and study coauthor Anouch Missirian, a Ph.D. candidate at SIPA, compared asylum applications to the EU filed from 103 countries between 2000 and 2014, with temperature variations in the applicants» home countries.
The government's recent decision to reconsider asylum applications from lone child refugees with family links to the UK has been welcomed by the Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC).
However an individual can probably weigh his own immediate chances of a successful asylum application, with a little more clarity and precision coming from the highest executive of the EU.
Associates in the Newark office had drafted wills for first responders through the Wills for Heroes program, offered advice on child custody at a domestic violence clinic, and helped push asylum applications for undocumented children from South and Central America.
We handle the most sensitive and challenging asylum applications, fighting tenaciously to protect clients from persecution.
We provide a free and confidential advice and legal information service on a range of immigration - related issues including asylum applications; Direct Provision; Family Reunification; employment rights and reporting racism.
It was held, however, that McGeough's Swedish lawyers would have told him that Swedish asylum applications are public documents, and that he was under no compulsion to reveal the information.
Niels Frenzen was interviewed about the number of asylum applications approved each year in the United States.
It uses a «chatbot» (a computer program which converses with a user) to help users challenge parking tickets (and claims to have overturned 160,000 tickets by 2016), claim for flight delay compensation, apply for emergency housing or help refugees with asylum applications.
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Third place goes to three California lawyers who were convicted of filing hundreds of fraudulent asylum applications: Jagprit Singh Sekhon, Jagdip Singh Sekhon and Manjit Kaur Rai.
He did not mince words when he declared that the EU's achievements in formulating and augmenting common standards for asylum applications were in jeopardy as a result of its non-implementation by certain MS.. He also clearly stated that the Commission will not refrain from initiating infringement proceedings against errant MS.
With the Dublin II Regulation in force, the initial EU country of entry is responsible for the processing of asylum applications.
The 28 - nation bloc is expected to receive around 1 million asylum applications in 2015 and a similar amount in 2016, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The latest data from Eurostat shows that, in the third quarter of 2017, Hungary had 745 asylum applications, while Germany had 51,970 applications.
According to Europe's statistics office, Eurostat, there were 626,000 asylum applications in 2014, an increase of 195,000 on the previous year.
Fifty - five per cent of asylum applications are refused or withdrawn (2011 - 13 figures).
Mohammad Edghtedarian acknowledges that some people do convert in order to help their asylum application: «People are desperate for a better life and sometimes they will lie for it — that's understandable... There are many people abusing the system... [but] who are they deceiving?
(UPDATED) Sweden grants asylum to one Iranian convert, but others say their asylum applications are denied because judges don't understand their plight.
Wisdom is an asylum seeker from Nigeria and his asylum application is still pending.
He was lucky to get admission to an Access to Science diploma course when he was waiting for the Home Office to decide on his asylum application.
Wisdom can not study further as he does not have the money and his asylum application is entangled in legalities.
A year later my asylum application was refused and I was sent to a detention centre.
Germany expects around 800,000 asylum applications this year, thirty times the level in the UK.
The Home Office have reportedly for the first time granted an asylum application on the basis of atheism.
The influential Public Accounts Select Committee has called on the Government to drastically improve the quality of decision - making in asylum applications.
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