Finally, it would not be necessary to demonstrate that the individual in question, or indeed the organisation, perpetrated particularly violent or vicious acts of terrorism; mere participation in a terrorist organisation and various ancillary activities may be sufficient to disqualify an individual
from asylum status.
Not exact matches
This Bill, if enacted, wold make provision for the award of
asylum - seeker
status in the United Kingdom to certain unaccompanied children
from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Eritrea displaced by conflict and present within the European Union.
Just over 100 children have been granted permanent legal
status or
asylum in New York City two years after the City Council launched a private - public partnership to prevent unaccompanied minors
from being deported
from the city.
In fact, the main inflow into irregular
status in the 2000s results
from non-removal of failed
asylum seekers and visa overstayers.
The children, who come
from countries including Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, typically are eligible for either special immigrant juvenile
status or
asylum due to the dangerous and often violent situations they are fleeing
from in their home countries.
According to Kirmayer, Yezidis serve as an extreme case study of the psychological challenges that refugees face at every stage of forced migration,
from the initial trauma of violent upheaval to the stress of uncertain
asylum status and eventual resettlement.
Nevertheless, the situation of
asylum seekers located in detention centres demonstrated that in order to obtain a refugee
status in the European Union, people needed something more than to escape
from persecution and travel to Europe.
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).
Amar Khoday, «No Excuses: Should
Asylum Seekers Be Barred
From Accessing Refugee
Status When Compelled to Provide «Material Support» To Terrorist Organizations?»
Taking note of some recent statements
from the State party in relation to
asylum - seekers, the Committee recommends that the State party implement faithfully the provisions of the 1951 Convention relating to the
Status of Refugees, as well as the 1967 Protocol thereto, with a view to continuing its cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and in accordance with the guidelines in UNHCR's «Handbook on Refugee Determination Procedures».