The Negative Effects of Relying on Inconsistencies to Determine Credibility
in Asylum Claims Involving an Initial Omission of Sexual Assault
The collection of forensic evidence of torture and the production of medico - legal reports for the purposes of proving torture
in asylum claims have been cornerstones of Freedom from Torture's work since our creation in 1985.
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.
Not exact matches
Children from Mexico and Canada, on the other hand, can be subject to «voluntary repatriation» within 72 hours of their capture, so long as an immigration officer finds that they were not the subject of a «severe form of trafficking
in persons» and do not have a basis to
claim asylum.
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.
Trump administration officials have railed against what they call «catch - and - release» policies that allow people requesting
asylum to be released from custody into the US while their
claims make their way through the courts
in a process that can last a year.
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 frau
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 frau
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 frau
in Iran for his political beliefs, only to lose it
in 2009 after his immigration lawyer was jailed for immigration frau
in 2009 after his immigration lawyer was jailed for immigration fraud.
Christian converts
claiming asylum in the UK have been having their applications refused because they can not recite the Ten Commandments, a new report is warnin...
Employees from at least 10 New York City law firms have been charged with participating
in a fraud ring that submitted false
claims in applications for Chinese
asylum seekers.
Name us a few of these people you
claim to have come back from the dead or simply admit that you are
in an
asylum due to the extreme psychosis you suffer from.
Upon arriving
in the UK they lied about being Christians
in order to pursue their
asylum claim.
If «deeply felt personal experience» is sufficient proof of a
claim, then's let's accept that, along with the necessary corollary that all such experiences must be equally valid, such as the gentleman
in the
asylum who deeply feels he is Napoleon.
CT reported
in 2012 how record religious violence
in Indonesia was bolstering the men's
claim for
asylum.
AtheistHunter (first off FUCKTARD, you belong
in an
asylum): You make these
claims without one shred of factual evidence to back you and you have the audacity to call Atheists arrogant??? You're just a plain ignorant waste of human flesh!!
In my view, it would be better to deem
asylum seekers, at least from certain countries, innocent of making a false
claim until they are proved guilty.
Tewelde
claimed asylum in the UK after the 2008 World Cross Country Championships
in Edinburgh
in order to avoid military conscription and he settled
in Scotland after spending a traumatic childhood
in Africa.
By virtue of being EU citizens, a French Jewish person can, without
claiming asylum, live and work
in Belgium, Spain, Germany, the UK, Poland, Romania: 27 states apart from France, I shall not list them all.
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.
Nor did the judges see any truth
in these stories; to them they fit a stereotypical refugee narrative, most likely sold to the refugees by
asylum narrative specialists so their
claims were not approved.
«Gathering biometric information such as fingerprints could assist the decision - making process if these individuals were ultimately successful
in reaching the UK and went on to
claim asylum.»
When a child turns up
in Britain by themselves and
claims asylum they've undoubtedly already suffered a lot.
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 vast majority of torture survivors that Freedom from Torture supports are
asylum seekers who often spend months and even years
in «limbo» waiting for the Home Office to assess their
claim.
Around 25,000 people
claimed asylum in the UK last year and just under half of them were accepted.
This can be most problematic for those whose very presence is unwelcome — those whose
claim for
asylum has been rejected, for example, who are
in effect deliberately left destitute.
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.
So when people ask about why these refugees don't
claim asylum in France — this is one of the many reasons why.
Ilesanmu's case has raised the question as to whether the threat of female genital mutilation should be grounds for
claiming asylum in the UK.
And Gavin Barwell had a particular constituency interest to raise since those wanting to
claim asylum have to visit the UK Border Agency
in his Croydon Central constituency:
As former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis argued so powerfully
in yesterday's Mail, it would greatly strengthen Britain's hand at the negotiating table if our Prime Minister could
claim a popular mandate for opt - outs on such issues as justice,
asylum, immigration and human rights.
While around two thousand
claims for
asylum in France have been made from the Jungle, for the many residents it is a staging post for the dangerous attempt to cross the Channel.
The regulation is clear that an
asylum seeker who has close family living legally within an EU member state has a right to
claim asylum in that country, and to reside there while they do so.
Worryingly, it seems that as standards slip
in the processing of immigration
claims and the
asylum backlog, the Home Office is making up for it with an increasingly militarised and bullying enforcement operation more reminiscent of a South American dictatorship than a leading western democracy.
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».
Take the case of a Sudanese national, who arrived
in Britain and
claimed asylum in 2003.
«If those controls were not
in place, then there would be no stopping thousands of people coming across the channel overnight, arriving
in Kent and
claiming asylum... The camp, and the people
in the camp, would effectively move overnight to the south east of England.»
Speaking
in the afternoon, foreign secretary William Hague said the
asylum claims was an attempt to sidestep a legal process.
«Likewise, we have people
in this country who have come here, have
claimed asylum, and then they go back on holiday
in the places where they
claimed asylum from.
Citizens of East Timor living
in Australia continued to have their citizenship recognized as Timorese, and many chose to
claim asylum in Australia.
At the same time, the home secretary has cut support to the families and children of those
claiming asylum in the UK, and is consulting on proposals to cut support to families which have been rejected
in their initial
claim for
asylum.
People often ask why refugees go to the camp
in France instead of
claiming asylum somewhere else
in Europe.
Their
asylum claim itself could also be jeopardised if the formal interviews upon which it depends are conducted while
in detention.
Isa informed me that when he went voluntarily to his screening interview
in Croydon to
claim asylum he took food with him
in plastic containers because he always travels with specific foods.
Under the Dublin Convention, refugees have to
claim asylum in the first EU member state they arrive
in.
The Home Office is to investigate
claims of racism
in a
asylum detention centre after an undercover BBC documentary.
In the past the British government was more than happy to recognise Eritreans - the largest group to claim asylum in the UK in 2015 - as people in need of protectio
In the past the British government was more than happy to recognise Eritreans - the largest group to
claim asylum in the UK in 2015 - as people in need of protectio
in the UK
in 2015 - as people in need of protectio
in 2015 - as people
in need of protectio
in need of protection.
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.