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  2. Asylum seeker - Wikipedia

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    An asylum seeker is a person who leaves their country of residence, enters another country, and makes in that other country a formal application for the right of asylum according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 14. [3] A person keeps the status of asylum seeker until the right of asylum application has concluded.

  3. Refugee - Wikipedia

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    An asylum seeker is a displaced person or immigrant who has formally sought the protection of the state they fled to as well as the right to remain in this country and who is waiting for a decision on this formal application. An asylum seeker may have applied for Convention refugee status or for complementary forms of protection. Asylum is thus ...

  4. Asylum in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Once asylum seekers enter the United States they have exactly one year to apply for asylum. During that year asylum seekers are responsible for providing their own legal assistance and representation. [11] Until their cases are approved, and sometimes even after approval and receipt of green cards, asylum seekers are at a constant risk of ...

  5. Internally displaced person - Wikipedia

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    The Guiding Principles, however, are non-binding. As Bahame Tom Nyanduga, Special Rapporteur on Refugees, IDPs and Asylum Seekers in Africa for the ACHPR has stated, "the absence of a binding international legal regime on internal displacement is a grave lacuna in international law." [47]

  6. International migration - Wikipedia

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    asylum seekers; forced migration; family members; return migrants; long-term, low-skilled migrants [3] These migrants can also be divided into two large groups, permanent and temporary. Permanent migrants intend to establish their permanent residence in a new country and possibly obtain that country's citizenship.

  7. Fact check: Government committed to using hotels for asylum ...

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    The Government, therefore, is not seeking to cease immediately the use of hotels for the housing of asylum seekers, despite a Labour manifesto commitment to ending this policy.

  8. Syrian asylum seekers in limbo as countries stop applications

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    Austria's caretaker government has stopped all asylum claims from Syrians and says it is making plans to to repatriate or deport people back to their homeland, arguing that the situation in the ...

  9. Refugee crisis - Wikipedia

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    These could be either internally displaced, refugees, asylum seekers or any other huge groups of migrants. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), due to conflicts, human rights violations, and other disturbing events, 108.4 million individuals experienced forced displacement globally by the end of 2022. 35.3 ...