Sentences with phrase «to claim asylum»
The case concerned three children who claimed asylum in the UK after having previously lodged asylum claims in the Netherlands and Italy.
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An Israeli Arab who claimed asylum in Britain after saying she was a Christian convert had «no idea» what Easter was about, a High Court judge has said.
So when people ask about why these refugees don't claim asylum in France — this is one of the many reasons why.
Most of the torture survivors we treat are in the process of claiming asylum in the UK, a process that can take years.
Notably, Syria's descent into civil war has seen around 150,000 people claim asylum in the EU and highlighted the incentive for European nations to work for stability and prosperity in bordering countries.
Beyond this there are numerous countries that are happy to accept relatively wealthy Europeans, again without claiming asylum.
In a judgment delivered today the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that homo - and bisexual persons are eligible groups for claiming asylum in EU and they can not be requested to conceal their sexual orientation (X, Y, Z v Minister voor Immigratie en Asiel).
For example, a slave fleeing from the rule of a harsh master could claim asylum by laying hold of an imperial statue, as could others in need of protection, and anyone damaging a statue of an emperor or treating it with disrespect (by, for example, urinating in its vicinity) could face the death penalty.
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...
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.
It would be likely that Latvians could claim asylum if it would be dangerous to return.
People often ask why refugees go to the camp in France instead of claiming asylum somewhere else in Europe.
Mr Mohamed was given leave to remain in the UK after claiming asylum in 2001.
Aliens with ties to terrorist organizations have attempted to enter illegally and claim asylum fraudulently.
A first important expansion came in March 2017, when it started helping refugees claim asylum.
In its respons [1] e to the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) reportinto the access to justice implications of legal aid reforms, published this week, the MoJ introduced two new categories of exemption - successful asylum seekers and refugees who didn't claim asylum in the UK but are resettled or transferred here.
This ruling means that unaccompanied children who claim asylum in a Member State can not be removed to another State pursuant to the Dublin Regulation.
Around 25,000 people claimed asylum in the UK last year and just under half of them were accepted.
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.
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.
«Our argument,» the legal team's spokesman continued, «would be that the very presence of the Jungle, and so many people who clearly haven't claimed asylum in France, is proof in itself that the French authorities are not actively processing everyone.
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.
Deportation efforts have kicked into a higher gear since Trump's inauguration, but ICE agents have yet to violate this original, very literal separation between church and state to detain anyone who's claimed asylum in a house of worship.
«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.
The changes, which are part of a raft of tough new measures designed to discourage people coming to the UK to claim asylum, will also suggest that those who have lost their appeal are no longer called «asylum seekers».
Most kids who come to the UK and claim asylum are rejected and instead granted given leave to remain as an unaccompanied asylum - seeking child.
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:
Under Dublin 3, an asylum seeker who arrives in the EU must claim asylum in the state in which they first arrived, and were registered.
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.
Take the case of a Sudanese national, who arrived in Britain and claimed asylum in 2003.
Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said: «Thousands of unaccompanied children claim asylum every year, many of them victims of trafficking, yet our system still fails to deal with them humanely.»
«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.»
But we now know that the vast majority of those seeking to come to the UK to claim asylum are fleeing war and persecution from Syria, Eritrea and elsewhere.
«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.
Over the past ten years the numbers trying to claim asylum have fallen dramatically.
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.
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 protection.
Yet Theresa May argued in her conference speech that it was the «wealthiest, luckiest and strongest» who claimed asylum in the UK and most did not deserve our support.
Under the Dublin Convention, refugees have to claim asylum in the first EU member state they arrive in.
«They want it to seem like the UK isn't a good place for Eritreans to try and claim asylum and they are hopeful the numbers will be reduced as a result.»
Dheepan decides to flee, taking with him two strangers — a woman and a little girl — hoping that they will make it easier for him to claim asylum in Europe.
McLeod Ganj (Upper Dharamsala), named after the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, is the residence of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, who claimed asylum in 1960 after the Chinese invaded Tibet, and a Tibetan community has developed not far from their Himalayan homeland.