Sentences with phrase «asylum cases»

There was also a 24 % reduction in asylum cases and a 5 % reduction in mental health cases.

It prevents an immigration lawyer focused upon employment - based immigration from getting calls for asylum cases.

Consequently, legal aid is retained for asylum cases, for debt and housing matters where someone's home is at immediate risk, and for mental health cases.

She now has substantial experience in immigration and asylum cases which invariably involve Human Rights arguments and arguments about the proper interpretation of the Immigration Rules.

I'm incredibly grateful for the friends and family who showed us generosity, kindness, and selflessness: for my father's friend, who took us to Coney Island one day for a wonderful escape from the stress of the city; for Amnesty International, who fought our political asylum case and helped us become citizens of this amazing country.

First, in 2004, we had David Blunkett trying to remove judicial review from asylum cases.

The paper also proposes a Scottish Asylum Agency, emphasising the distinction between asylum and immigration, and promising «robust, fair, socially responsible» decision - making on asylum cases.

Wiles» statement represents an apparent policy change as it contradicts the «Nationality - Swapping» document, which describes how Border Agency officials judging asylum cases should access DNA and isotope evidence from the project and use it in interviews with asylum seekers.

Third, the Case Resolution Directorate was set up to review the backlog of over 500,000 unresolved immigration and asylum cases cumulated over the last decade.

Any later asylum cases if they manage to get to Britain would have heavily relied evidence of previous efforts to get into the country illegally.

However, a parliamentary answer reveals 11 high street shopping vouchers for # 25 have been given out solely to presenting officers in asylum cases since July 2012 as a «one - off recognition of individual performance at court».

The answers will also be relevant for a preliminary reference that the Dutch Counscil of State has made in a few asylum cases regarding the interpretation of article 9 of the Directive, in particular whether homosexuals can be ascribed as «a social group» in the sense of the provision, and whether it can be expected from them «to conceal some homosexual activities».

This appears to be one of the first U.S. asylum cases connected with the widely reported 2009 election protests in Iran.

As to actual substantive decisions, the number in civil cases has remained exactly the same (87), those relating to criminal matters have reduced (33 as against 43) and the number of successful asylum cases has remained small though it has risen (from 26 to 54).

Given the fact that each judge could be assigned eight or more asylum cases (any one of which could have hundreds of pages of background evidence) each week, the ability for any given judge to have full familiarity with any given case is limited.

She previously served as a law clerk for an internationally recognized business immigration firm in both its Boston and Silicon Valley offices, where she gained extensive experience in H - 1B petitions and played an integral role in getting a pro-bono asylum case approved for a young Honduran girl who faced a horrific tragedy at the hands of notorious gangs (MS - 13 and Mara 18).

The clinic represents clients in family law cases in Boulder District Court, social security disability cases before federal administrative law judges, and asylum cases before immigration law judges.

Planned reforms will divert substantial numbers of immigration and asylum cases towards immigration tribunals and away from the judicial review process.»

In addition to their other cases, the students are all working on several asylum cases, representing clients from all over the world, and seeking custody orders and filing petitions with USCIS for many juveniles who are eligible for SIJS status (which can lead to legal permanent residency).

After working on her very first pro bono asylum case as a law firm associate, Sarah Nolan, pro bono counsel, Brooklyn Defender Services, knew that she wanted to do more pro bono and dedicate her career to immigration work.

For example, two immigration lawyers where one only does corporate immigration and the other only asylum cases are not really competing with each other, but will frequently be in a position to refer cases to each other.

We've had a long history of working with Immigration Equality on LGBTQ related asylum cases and this is a great outcome for this individual.»

case, the CJEU will be called upon to interpret EU law with regard to the evidentiary assessment of SOGI asylum cases in a more targeted way than it did in

In one of the most startling pieces of Labour's incompetence on immigration, which is a competitive field, they discovered a backlog of over 450,000 asylum cases which had been stuck in a warehouse and forgotten about.

I also Conduct psychosocial evaluations for immigration (Vawa law, Waivers and Political Asylum cases).

The prime minister omitted to tell the CBI that the majority of these cases had nothing to do with business and a lot to do with asylum cases.

Originally, exemptions were proposed for asylum cases and members of the Armed Forces.

The White House wants Congress to close what it calls legal «loopholes» in the asylum process: making it possible to deport immigrants under the age of 18 back to Central America without a court hearing; allowing the government to detain children in regular, jail - style immigration detention facilities along with their parents; and tightening the standards for when an immigrant can stay in the US to pursue an asylum case.

That's the type of judgement which the Home Office now exercises in asylum cases.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito will announce the updated figures Thursday afternoon, her office said, which show the program has provided free legal representation in 72 asylum cases, with 47 cases resulting in children receiving permanent legal status.

Mr Cameron will say that the UK Border Agency is close to clearing the backlog of almost 500,000 asylum cases.

This is a particular problem in assisting unaccompanied minors making applications to extend their leave where an asylum case may have previously been refused but the client granted a period of leave on account of their age.

Such matters are no longer in scope and, if there is an Art 8 aspect arising in an asylum case (which there often is), it is encumbent on the practitioner to somehow hive off the out of scope work and record it separately in a parallel file.

Asylum cases may be eligible for legal aid funding.

At Bienvenidos Immigration Attorneys, we understand the legal concepts involved in asylum cases and we have the research skills and commitment required to build the strongest possible argument for granting asylum in your case.

Well, there exist various networks; formal networks, less formal networks, I believe there is a network for national judges in asylum cases; in administrative law there is an important network called ACA which is run officially by the Belgian Council of State; there is a network of competition law judges.

Asylum cases will often require hours of testimony delving deep into buried memories of torture, war and persecution.

A corporate junior tried their hand at an asylum case, which was «interesting because I'm not a litigator, so I got to stretch my legs in a space I don't usually work in.»

There was the usual crop of immigration and asylum cases (six in all), at least two of which attracted substantial publicity.

Often, when people think of immigration law they think of family migration, human rights and asylum cases.

Charlotte is instructed in complex judicial review cases in asylum cases, Article 8 and ILR as a victim of spousal violence.

Court and tribunal fees: the government announced that it will drop increases of up to 500 % in tribunal fees for immigration and asylum cases — see this report by The Independent.

But some have also expressed relief that the criminal legal aid scheme has been left largely untouched, as have funding for inquests, judicial reviews and asylum cases.