Sentences with phrase «claiming political asylum»
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In 2003, Sadr, who was studying at Cornell University, won asylum in the US based on claims he'd been tortured in Iran for his political beliefs, only to lose it in 2009 after his immigration lawyer was jailed for immigration fraud.
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«No existing sound research substantiates the political claim that giving people asylum in Europe stimulates more flow,» says Alexander Betts, head of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford.
She is also experienced in claims for political asylum as well as economic citizenship.
RT (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] UKSC 38 [2012] 3 WLR 345 Asylum claim: persecution on grounds of political belief.
We have experience of removing Interpol Red Flag notices and work closely with our colleagues in the Immigration Group to deploy political asylum claims where appropriate.