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	Political Asylum Attorney Washington DC
		Political asylum is granted to people who are afraid if they return to their home country they may be persecuted.
		To win asylum because you are afraid of returning to your home country, you must show the judge that your fear is "well-founded." Thus, you must convince the judge that you truly believe you're in danger, that you have good reasons for this belief, and that someone else in your position would also be afraid.
		Anyone who applies for political asylum and has persecuted someone else because of that person's political opinion, her membership in a social group, her religion, her race or her nationality may not be granted political asylum, no matter how strong the case may be.
	www.mjtlegal.com /legal_2_asylum.shtml (3137 words)

	Political Asylum: The Achilles Heel of Immigration Reform
		Political asylum is the most idealistic, most uncontrollable, and most poorly managed of all features of the country's convoluted immigration rules.
		The asylum system is subverted by interest groups' skillful manipulation, by often uninformed compassion among Americans, and by the extreme and unworkable definition of "due process" that asylum's advocates have fastened upon it.
		Though the number actually granted asylum is far lower, nearly 500,000 aliens outside the legal immigration process now have gained legal or de facto permanent residence with the help of their access to the asylum channel.
	www.npg.org /forum_series/achilles_heel.htm (4038 words)

	Refugee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The most common asylum claims to industrialized countries are based upon political and religious grounds.
		Under the 1951 Convention on Refugees and 1967 Protocol, a nation must grant asylum to refugees and cannot forcibly return a refugee to their nation of origin.
		Some governments are relatively tolerant and accepting of onshore asylum claims; other governments will not only refuse such claims, but may actually arrest or detain those who attempt to seek asylum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Refugee (3288 words)

	New Asylum Laws: Undermining an American Ideal
		Moreover, many of those who do not receive asylum may actu- ally be fleeing persecution but either do not meet the threshold imposed by U.S. law or do not possess adequate legal counsel to convince the INS or an immigration judge of the merits of their claims.
		As a result, judgments on whether an asylum applicant has satis- fied the standard for a grant of asylum often hinge on the testimony of the asylum applicant--particularly his or her credibility and demeanor, the level of detail of the ac- count, and whether the account of persecution is inherently consistent.
		Sometimes the asylum offi- cer travels to the detention facility only to learn that the asylum seeker is not prepared to proceed with her case on that particular day, because, for example, her rights have not previously been explained to her.
	www.cato.org /pubs/pas/pa-299.html (9138 words)

	Political asylum in USA
		Asylum may be granted to people who are already in the United States and are unable or unwilling to return their home country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.
		If an Asylum Officer finds that you are not eligible for asylum and you are in the United States illegally, the Asylum Officer will place you in removal proceedings and refer your application to an Immigration Judge for a final decision.
		Under asylum reform in 1995, the USCIS standard is to conduct the asylum interview within 60 days after the claim is filed, and to identify and grant in a timely fashion those cases that have merit.
	www.immihelp.com /gc/asylum.html (1086 words)

	Asylum Research.org
		Asylum Research is a national organization that monitors and documents gay refugees and the unique problems they face seeking political asylum in the United States.
		Asylum Research is an organization created to connect refugees with legal assistance, information, support, outreach, and referrals.
		Working with US law granting asylum to such refugees, Asylum Research offers help in assessing the legitimacy and truthfulness of an individual’s claim for asylum, and, where it is appropriate, assists them to find an experienced attorney in different parts of the country.
	www.asylumresearch.org /pages/about/about.html (269 words)

	Immigration.com - Political Asylum
		Asylum is asked for in the United States; refugee status is asked for outside of the United States.
		To be eligible for asylum in the United States, you must must ask for asylum at a port-of-entry (airport, seaport or border crossing), or file an application within one year of your arrival in the United States.
		Under asylum reform in 1995, the BCIS (INS) standard is to conduct the asylum interview within 60 days after the claim is filed, and to identify and grant in a timely fashion those cases that have merit.
	www.immigration.com /faq/politcalasylum.html (1362 words)

	Political Asylum
		Political Asylum is a celestial coalition which grants political asylum to enlightened political refugees who feel persecuted or oppressed and who have their own website.
		Successful applicants will be granted the right to display on their website our political asylum certificate, formally sanctioned by the celestial realm of Heaven Hell Purgatory.
		Also, we are not yet officially recognized by any government on earth as having any legal rights to grant political asylum, but we are working on it.
	www.politicalasylum.org (143 words)

	Applying for Political Asylum Based On Domestic Violence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In order to be eligible for political asylum, the applicant must prove that she has been persecuted by the government as a result of her membership in one of the following five enumerated groups:
		The applicant can also show that she has suffered persecution because of race, religion, nationality, political beliefs or membership in a particular social group from someone other than the government but that the government is unable or unwilling to protect her.
		In the unpublished case of Matter of S-A-, the BIA granted asylum to a young woman who had suffered frequent physical abuse at the hands of her father because she did not agree with his strict Muslim religious beliefs.
	www.rreeves.com /pub_216.htm (570 words)

	AEGiS-AP: US Granting Political Asylum
		Once reserved for those whose religious or political views made them the targets of official persecution, asylum law is increasingly being applied to those who are outcasts by virtue of cultural -- or medical -- differences with the prevailing norm.
		Asylum case records are confidential, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service won't say how many cases have been decided on the basis of sexual orientation.
		Hiroshi Motomura, a professor of law at the University of Colorado who edits the leading legal casebook on asylum law, said the gay asylum cases are based on "well-settled precedent." He sees them as part of a general broadening of asylum law that includes cases of persecution against women.
	www.aegis.com /news/ap/1996/AP961209.html (1691 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions About Asylum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Asylum may be granted to people who are arriving in or already physically present in the United States.
		To apply for asylum in the United States, you may ask for asylum at a port-of-entry (airport, seaport, or border crossing), or file Form I-589, Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal, at the appropriate Service Center within one year of your arrival in the United States.
		You must apply for asylum within one year of your last arrival in the United States, but you may apply for asylum later than one year if there are changed circumstances that materially affect your eligibility for asylum or extraordinary circumstances directly related to your failure to file within one year.
	uscis.gov /graphics/services/asylum/faq.htm (5237 words)

	Libya: Human Rights
		The term "Refugees", and the term "Political asylum seekers" receive different interpretations: In Western Europe a refugee is the same as a political asylum seeker.
		It is evident from the 1951 United Nations Convention that the decision as to whether a Libyan asylum seeker is entitled to protection against forcible return to a particular country should be based on reliable assesment of the risk he or she faces in that country.
		In a history spanning nearly 25 years, Libyans that have been granted political asylum around the world have demonstrated excellent citizenship, zero crime rate, and without exception are high achievers: as Professors in leading institutions, medical doctors, scientists, and successful businessmen.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dr_ibrahim_ighneiwa/rights.htm (1265 words)

	SUMMARY: Asylum, Judgment - 20 November 1950 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		On the contrary, in the case of diplomatic asylum, the refugee was on the territory of the State in which he had committed the offence: the decision to grant asylum derogated from the sovereignty of the territorial State and removed the offender from the jurisdiction of that State.
		It therefore followed that Colombia, as the State granting asylum, was not competent to qualify the nature of the offence by a unilateral and definitive decision binding on Peru.
		It was not sufficient to be accused of a political offence in order to be entitled to receive asylum; asylum could only intervene against the action of justice in cases where arbitrary action was substituted for the rule of law.
	www.icj-cij.org /icjwww/idecisions/isummaries/icpsummary501120.htm (1605 words)

	Refugee status and political asylum with the USCIS
		Asylum and/or Refugee Status was to be granted to anyone outside of his or her own country of Nationality (or already in the US) who is "unable or unwilling to return because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion".
		You must be applying for political asylum based on an actual experience of persecution in your home country or fear of persecution based on race, religion, or political opinion.
		If you meet the qualifications, you may be approved for political asylum unless the USCIS proves that conditions have substantially improved in your home country.
	www.rapidimmigration.com /usa/1_eng_kit_asylum.html (896 words)

	Legal Assistance for Political Asylum Seekers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Who is eligible for political asylum in the US Immigrants who are in the U.S. may request asylum if they have been persecuted or have a well-founded fear of persecution in their home country because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion.
		Barring extraordinary circumstances or changed conditions in their home countries, protection seekers must request asylum within one year of entering the U.S. Those who have participated in the persecution of others or committed serious crimes are not eligible for asylum.
		Undocumented asylum seekers cannot legally work to support themselves and are at constant risk of being arrested by U.S. Border Patrol and forced to return to the repression they have fled.
	www.lawhelp.org /documents/109771asylum.html?stateabbrev=/AZ (414 words)

	Political Asylum
		In order to obtain a grant of political asylum in the United States an alien must prove that he or she is a refugee as defined in Section 101(a)(42) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
		An applicant for asylum has a well founded fear of future persecution if it is established that there is a reasonable possibility that the applicant will suffer persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion if they were to return to the country where they fear persecution.
		Please be aware that the granting of asylum in the United States is discretionary, and is not guaranteed merely by a showing of past persecution or a fear of future persecution.
	www.sackskolken.com /green_card/asylum.html (280 words)

	Getting political asylum right - The Washington Times: Commentary - February 15, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Asylum is also effective because it can be claimed upon entry, for example, when proper documentation is lacking or when placed in a deportation hearing after a prior immigration violation.
		Yousef claimed political asylum and was released pending a hearing.
		Political asylum is one of America's most coveted representations of who we are as a people.
	www.washtimes.com /commentary/20050214-083625-1593r.htm (953 words)

	CNN - Critics assail Germany's crackdown on political asylum - December 27, 1997
		There are 350,000 asylum cases in the courts, and each one usually lasts for years.
		Sixty percent of all political asylum cases are in Germany, according to its government.
		Those waiting for a decision on whether they're eligible for asylum, such as the group of Afghani refugees who recently staged a protest in Berlin, are unhappy about the fact that most of them are under pressure to get out of Germany within six months.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9712/27/germany.outsider (818 words)

	National Review: The new jet set - how questionable political asylum claimants enter the US at New York, New York's ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Once he utters "political asylum" his chances of remaining in the United States are 93 per cent.
		Though some of the asylum seekers have made it to JFK on their own, most, particularly those from China, India, and Pakistan, rely on professional smugglers.
		The law says that anyone who requests political asylum in the U.S., regardless of the circumstances of his arrival, must be given a hearing.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n5_v45/ai_13651116 (1478 words)

	Miami Immigration Lawyer Overview -Political Asylum
		Political asylum is available to persons who have a well-founded fear of persecution upon return to their native country based on reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.
		The asylum applicant must show only that there is a reasonable possibility that persecution will occur upon return.
		Another way an person may establish a claim for political asylum is by showing past persecution.
	www.legallawhelp.com /lawyers_attorneys/Florida/frankel/Miami/immigration_overview/political_asylum.html (437 words)

	Procedure for political asylum in Switzerland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A new Law has since been passed stipulating that the asylum request will only begin in two cases: either you are able to give a credible reason why you no longer have identification papers, or you provide serious evidence of persecution.
		If there is no manifest abuse of the asylum procedure, you will be allotted to a canton, which will see to your basic needs and will proceed with a detailed hearing on your motives for asylum.
		All the details of your file will be carefully examined once again by the Swiss Asylum Appeals Committee, an independent commission responsible for the final decision by declaring whether the FOR ruling was made in accordance with the provisions of asylum law.
	switzerland.isyours.com /e/immigration/programs/asylum/procedure.html (1377 words)

	New Rule For Political Asylum Seekers (Gotham Gazette. March, 2003)
		To be eligible for political asylum, foreigners, regardless of immigration status, only need to show up at a port-of entry, such as an airports or border crossing, and ask for asylum.
		Asylum seekers from other countries, though not to be detained, will be closely scrutinized.
		While he was waiting for his asylum, Abdul Rahman plotted several plans to blow up New York City landmarks, one of which was the first attack of the World Trade Center in 1993.
	www.gothamgazette.com /article/20030331/11/333 (975 words)

	USCIS Political Asylum and Refugee Status
		Firmly resettled means that the alien was offered residence status, citizenship, or some other form of permanent resettlement by another country and traveled to and entered that nation as a consequence of his or her flight from persecution.
		Even if asylum is denied as a matter of discretion, withholding of deportation may still be available, since this relief is mandatory, not discretionary.
		While an applicant granted only withholding of deportation may remain in the country and obtain employment authorization, this status will not lead to permanent residence, and the USCIS can still attempt to deport the alien to a third country that might be willing to accept the alien.
	www.rapidimmigration.com /usa/1_eng_info_asylum.html (1897 words)

	The Political Asylum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project
		The Political Asylum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project is committed to providing legal services to secure the safety and freedom of asylum seekers and to promoting the rights of immigration detainees.
		This is accomplished through the Pro Bono Asylum Project and the Detention Center Program.
		PAIR is a model for leveraging relatively modest grants into millions of dollars of pro bono legal services to asylum seekers.
	www.pairproject.org (138 words)

	How to obtain political refugee status in Switzerland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		We do feel, however, that Swiss political asylum granted to people fleeing from persecution is a worthy cause, and have thus decided to devote a section of our site to this issue.
		All refugees have the right to protection and it is forbidden to send them back to their country if their lives are threatened.
		To justify your request for asylum, you need to prove that, in your State of origin or your last country of residence, you have a serious threat or well-founded fear of being persecuted by reason of your race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion.
	switzerland.isyours.com /e/immigration/programs/asylum/index.html (384 words)

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