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Soviet-born Ukrainian youth who in 1980 then at age 12 was the youngest person to announce that he wanted to leave the Communist world and not return with his parents to what was then Soviet Ukraine. In 1985 after five years of court battles on October 3-his 18th birthday-he was able to stay permanently in the U.S. when he was sworn in as a U.S ...
This is a list of people granted political asylum for individual and publicly known reasons. They were persecuted because of their actions as individuals, not because they were members of a persecuted group. Individual reasons for persecution can be found in the notes column of the table. Year Name Citizenship or Persecuting power or Country ...
June 12: A photo, taken by Getty Images' photojournalist John Moore [53] on June 12 in McAllen, Texas, of a Honduran two-year-old child—the daughter of an asylum seeker who had crossed the US-Mexican border illegally—"became the face of family separation" even though the toddler was never separated from her mother. [54] [55] [56] 2018: June 14
The Refugee Council estimated that, as of the end of March 2024, there were over 118,000 people in the asylum backlog — that is, waiting to hear if their claim for asylum will be accepted or ...
The department, which had to make an initial decision on more than 92,000 asylum claims made before June 2022, described ending the legacy asylum backlog as a “pivotal step in the Government’s ...
May 25: Figures show the asylum backlog has hit a new record high with more than three quarters of claims made by people who crossed the Channel since 2018 still awaiting a decision.
June 27, 1978 () June 27, 1983 () 5 years (last of them) Allowed to emigrate to Israel and later the U.S. Havana Peruvian embassy crisis: Over 10,000 Cuban citizens diplomatic protection Cuba: Havana Peru: 4 April 1980 1980 Peru granted diplomatic protection to the Cuban citizens. The incident led to the Mariel boatlift. [17]
The following is an incomplete list of notable people who have been deported from the United States. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), particularly the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), handles all matters of deportation. [1]