Canadian authorities denied her request for refugee status and in 2009 threatened her with deportation.
To establish a case for refugee status, they had to demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution.
Many refugees from the Caucasus conflict received passports or refugee status in surrounding countries.
And the Swedes have let most stay, granting 90% of claimants formal refugee status in 2006.
When Congress addresses this complicated issue, the simplest policies should be travel visas and refugee status.
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Is it refugee status or is that generally the main reason that people tend to be poor?
Organisations that house asylum seekers for the UKBA must inform local authorities if someone is granted refugee status.
This man says that if he doesn't get a visa he will apply for refugee status in Brazil.
There are also plans for tighter monitoring of asylum seekers to ensure terrorists are not given refugee status.
For those denied refugee status, the question of how they should be returned to their home countries remains.
In 2005, CNN spoke with Mbarushimana in France, where he had refugee status.
Now she has fled Iraq with her husband and child, seeking refugee status to come to the U.S. as well.
The Home Office said UK representation for people who have been granted refugee status "depends on the case in question".
Previously migrants had been transferred from Lampedusa to Sicily, where those not given refugee status eventually received an essentially meaningless expulsion order.
Some 28, 000 Rohingyas have official refugee status, and live in two camps run by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Several hundred Sudanese immigrants rallied Sunday in Tel Aviv, demanding refugee status.
Jamshid, who fled Afghanistan in 1988, and then served the U.S. as an interpreter after returning home, was denied refugee status in 2008.
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The ruling by the House of Lords will be of significance to other women seeking refugee status because of persecution based on their sex.
Figures from the United Nations suggest that of the 1.8 million Iraqis seeking refugee status across the world, almost a third are from smaller minority groups.
The residents of Jalozai Camp, 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of Peshawar, have yet to be granted refugee status by Pakistan, depriving them of most international relief.
And, with that, there are different types of immigration that have happened that affect whether they're refugee status or they came over for educational purposes or work purposes.
Now, only those officially granted refugee status receive free care.
After one year in the US the Somali Bantus can adjust from refugee status to permanent resident status, and then after five years they are eligible for US citizenship.
Last year, Bahjat, his mother and his sister received refugee status, admitted through a special program to resettle Iraqi translators and others who have helped American interests in that country.
Then she said her hands were tied by a 1985 Supreme Court ruling extending constitutional rights to those claiming refugee status, which had led to the present system of lengthy appeals.
Some governments believe that convention's definition of persecution is too narrow - they want to be able to grant refugee status, for example, to women and children who are fleeing physical abuse.
Each of these vulnerable children would benefit from having a volunteer lawyer present their case so our immigration court judges can assess whether they need refugee status, asylum, or if they can be safely returned home.
After continued international pressure, Pakistan has now agreed to give them refugee status, but wants them to live close to the border so that they can be repatriated soon after the conflict is over.
As the perceived threat to them grows, Jewish-American and Israeli groups and American diplomats are trying to establish refugee status for them and then pay for their resettlement in the United States or Israel.
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