Sentences with phrase «submitted asylum applications»
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.»
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In a press statement cited by Legal Pad, prosecutors said the lawyers, working for the Sacramento and San Francisco firm Sekhon & Sekhon, submitted asylum applications, primarily for Indian and Romanian nationals, «containing fictitious stories of persecution that the clients had supposedly suffered in their home countries.»
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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.
Once she was granted asylum, she promptly submitted an application for temporary residence permits for her parents and three minor siblings for the purpose of family reunification.
The special protection for unaccompanied minor asylum - seekers under the Family Reunification Directive would therefore extend beyond the age of maturity if the person concerned is able to access the territory of a Member State, submit an application for the refugee status before turning eighteen and is successively successful in their application.
He reopened it, asking the parties and any interested amici to submit briefs on «whether, and under what circumstances, being a victim of private criminal activity constitutes a cognizable «particular social group» for purposes of an application of asylum or withholding of removal.»
Due to ambiguity as to its meaning, the UK Court of Appeal submitted a preliminary reference question on Article 6 of the Regulation, the rule applicable to determining the Member State which must examine the asylum application lodged by a child.
Because the asylum application was filed four years after client's arrival in the United States, we had to establish an exception to the statutory deadline generally requiring an application be submitted within one year of the applicant's arrival in the United States.