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An in-country applicant for asylum is eligible for a work permit (employment authorization) after their application for asylum has been pending for 365 days. [63] If an asylum seeker is recognized as a refugee, he or she may apply for lawful permanent residence status (a green card) one year after being granted asylum.
Hansen directed her to fill out an asylum application by the next court date in 3½ months "so we can talk about it." Down the hall from Hansen's courtroom, a Mexican immigrant sat before ...
In 1990, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990 ("IMMACT"), P.L. 101–649, Congress established a procedure by which the Attorney General may provide temporary protected status to immigrants in the United States who are temporarily unable to safely return to their home country because of ongoing armed conflict, an environmental disaster, or other extraordinary and temporary conditions.
Huberth Espinoza, 65, sat on a bench outside the 5th District police station in Pullman on a Wednesday in late June, waiting to be picked up for work. An asylum-seeker from Venezuela, Espinoza ...
an asylum application pending. an emergent personal or bona fide reason to travel temporarily abroad. Aliens holding valid K-3 or K-4 visas, as well as H-1 ( temporary worker in a specialty occupation) or L-1 (intra-company transferee) visas and their dependents in H-4 or L-2 status who have filed for adjustment of status do not have to file ...
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[1] [2] The migrants whom U.S. immigration enforcement agencies have allowed to remain in the community pending immigrant hearings have been those deemed low risk, [3] such as children, families, and those seeking asylum. [4] There is no "hard-and-fast definition" of the phrase, [2] which can be used as a pejorative.