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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 ...
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.
Just over a third (36%) of asylum petitions were approved by US immigration judges in October, the beginning of the new 2025 fiscal year, according to data from Syracuse University's TRAC ...
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 ...
As of 2020, the backlog of asylum claims consists of more than 290,000 applicants. [34] During the 1970s and 1980s, United States asylum policy focused on Southeastern Asia due to the Vietnam War. The United States increased the number of European refugees in 1989 by accepting Soviet refugees and in 1999 by accepting Kosovar refugees.
Toggle Timeline subsection. 2.1 2018. 2.2 ... 26,547 asylum claims were filed by would be ... 1,900 had made the crossing by the end of the year. ...
Officials also made the “highest annual number of substantive decisions in a year since 2002”, it said. ... which had to make an initial decision on more than 92,000 asylum claims made before ...
A map of the European migrant crisis in 2015. This is a timeline of the European migrant crisis of 2015 and 2016.. Against the backdrop of four years of Syrian civil war and political instability in other Middle Eastern countries, [1] there was a record number of 1.3 million people who lodged asylum applications to the European Union's 28 member nations, Norway and Switzerland in 2015 ...