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One of the first successful LGBT asylum pleas to be granted refugee status in the United States due to sexual orientation was a Cuban national whose case was first presented in 1989. [86] The case was affirmed by the Board of Immigration Appeals and the barring of LGBT individuals into the United States was repealed in 1990.
Wilkins, 112 U.S. 94 (1884) – Court held that even though Elk was born in the United States, he was not a citizen because he owed allegiance to his tribe when he was born rather than to the U.S. and therefore was not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States when he was born.
United States: Federal deputy from Guanabara (1963–1964). [8] Part of the opposition against the military dictatorship in Brazil, he had asylum from Uruguay from 3 May 1964 [9] until his expulsion in 1977 [10] and then had US asylum from 1977 to 1979. [11] 1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva Soviet Union United States: Writer and lecturer; daughter of ...
One in 10 asylum-seekers were unrepresented in cases resolved in fiscal year 2022, and among pending asylum cases, “one in five (21%) are registered as unrepresented,” according to TRAC.
When a busload of political pawns from Venezuela via Texas and Colorado landed suddenly on Fresno’s doorstep, city leaders treated them like human beings.. The 16 or so people who last week ...
The U.N.'s migration and refugee agencies expressed concern over Biden administration plans for new asylum restrictions in the United States and said the right to asylum is fundamental. President ...
Negusie v. Holder, 555 U.S. 511 (2009), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court involving whether the bar to asylum in the United States for persecutors applies to asylum applicants who have been the target of credible threats of harm or torture in their home countries for refusing to participate further in persecution. [1]
United States: June 5, 1989 () June 25, 1990 () 385 days Negotiated flight to the United States Olivia Forsyth: South African apartheid era ex- spy agent [18] defection to ANC Angola: Luanda United Kingdom: May 2, 1988 () November 16, 1988 () 198 days Negotiated flight to the United Kingdom Hou Dejian