Showing posts with label Asylum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asylum. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Church of England Faces Controversy Over Insincere Conversions to Gain Asylum

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  The Telegraph reports on the controversy in Britain over whether the Church of England has been misled into converting Muslim migrants wh...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

European Court Says Switzerland Wrongly Denied Asylum To Pakistani Convert To Christianity

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In M.A.M. v. Suisse ,  (ECHR, April 26, 2022) [decision in French], the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of a Pakistani asylee ...
Friday, March 25, 2022

DHS Issues New Interim Final Rule On Asylum Application Procedures

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Yesterday, in a 512-page Release ( full text ), the Department of Homeland Security adopted an Interim Final Rule (IFR) on procedures for de...
Friday, August 20, 2021

Expedited Asylum Procedures Proposed By DOJ and DHS

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The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice announced yesterday that they are publishing a 140-page Notice of Propose...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Supreme Court Rejects Asylum Seeker's Challenge To Limits On Review Of Claims

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The U.S. Supreme Court today in Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam , (US Sup. Ct., June 25, 2020) upheld against constitutiona...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

DOJ Proposes Changes In Asylum Procedures

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The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security announced yesterday that they have submitted to the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed R...
Saturday, February 29, 2020

British Tribunal Denies Asylum To Disingenuous Iranian Convert To Christianity

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Britain's appellate court that reviews decisions on visa and asylum applications and the right to enter or stay in the UK-- the Upper Tr...
Thursday, July 04, 2019

2nd Circuit Gives Broad Reading To Allow Late Filing of Asylum Application

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Normally an application for asylum must be filed within one year of an alien's arrival in the United States. However, an application fil...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

9th Circuit: Sikh Asylum Applicant Did Not Show Past Persecution

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To qualify for asylum as a refugee, an individual must show either past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution. ( 8 CFR 12...
Friday, December 21, 2018

Supreme Court Will Not Stay Injunction Against Asylum Rule

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Today the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order ( full text ) in East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Trump  (stay denied, Dec. 21, 2018), denying a ...
Thursday, November 22, 2018

Court Bars Enforcement of Trump's Limitation on Asylum Seekers

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In East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Trump ,  (ND CA, Nov. 19, 2018), a California federal district court issued a temporary restraining order ...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

9th Circuit: Religious Sect's Attempt to Extort Land and Recruit May Create Basis For Asylum

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In Singh v. Sessions ,  (9th Cir., Nov. 15, 2017), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of appeals held that an immigration judge was incorrect when h...
Friday, October 28, 2016

3rd Circuit Judge Questions Religious Mix of Syrian Refugees

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In Heartland Alliance National Immigrant Justice Center v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security ,  (7th Cir., Oct. 21, 2016), the U.S. 7th C...
Thursday, June 09, 2016

British Parliamentary Group Releases Report On Asylum Claims By Migrants Claiming Religious Persecution

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In Britain, the All Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief this week released a 35-page report titled Fl...
Wednesday, March 05, 2014

German Home School Family That Was Denied SCOTUS Review Gets Deferred Status From DHS

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Fox News reports that in a surprising development yesterday, one day after the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in the home schooling a...
Monday, January 27, 2014

2nd Circuit: Chinese Asylum Applicant Wrongly Questioned By IJ About Doctrinal Knowledge

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In Chang Qiang Zhu v. Holder ,  (2d Cir., Jan. 23, 2013), the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded for further proceedi...