Author: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asylum, Right of
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Representing Asylum Applicants
Author: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asylum, Right of
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asylum, Right of
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Manual on Representing Asylum Applicants
Author: Arthur C. Helton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asylum, Right of
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asylum, Right of
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Representing Asylum Applicants
Author: Ann Parrent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asylum, Right of
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asylum, Right of
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status
Author: Benjamin N. Lawrance
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107069068
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A comprehensive study offering the first comparative account of the increasing dependence on expertise in the asylum and refugee status determination process.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107069068
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A comprehensive study offering the first comparative account of the increasing dependence on expertise in the asylum and refugee status determination process.
Representing Asylum Seekers
Author: Sarah Ignatius
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asylum, Right of
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This manual is for attorneys representing asylum seekers pro bono in the New England area before the Newark Asylum Office and the Boston Immigration Court, or on appeal. The Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project prepared this manual, with articles written by Sarah Ignatius, David McHaffey and Anita Sharma unless otherwise noted.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asylum, Right of
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This manual is for attorneys representing asylum seekers pro bono in the New England area before the Newark Asylum Office and the Boston Immigration Court, or on appeal. The Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project prepared this manual, with articles written by Sarah Ignatius, David McHaffey and Anita Sharma unless otherwise noted.
Representing Asylum Seekers
Author: Sarah Ignatius
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asylum, Right of
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asylum, Right of
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Lives in the Balance
Author: Philip G. Schrag
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479865982
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Although Americans generally think that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is focused only on preventing terrorism, one office within that agency has a humanitarian mission. Its Asylum Office adjudicates applications from people fleeing persecution in their homelands. Lives in the Balance is a careful empirical analysis of how Homeland Security decided these asylum cases over a recent fourteen-year period. Day in and day out, asylum officers make decisions with life-or-death consequences: determining which applicants are telling the truth and are at risk of persecution in their home countries, and which are ineligible for refugee status in America. In Lives in the Balance, the authors analyze a database of 383,000 cases provided to them by the government in order to better understand the effect on grant rates of a host of factors unrelated to the merits of asylum claims, including the one-year filing deadline, whether applicants entered the United States with a visa, whether applicants had dependents, whether they were represented, how many asylum cases their adjudicator had previously decided, and whether or not their adjudicator was a lawyer. The authors also examine the degree to which decisions were consistent among the eight regional asylum offices and within each of those offices. The authors’ recommendations, including repeal of the one-year deadline, would improve the adjudication process by reducing the impact of non-merits factors on asylum decisions. If adopted by the government, these proposals would improve the accuracy of outcomes for those whose lives hang in the balance.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479865982
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Although Americans generally think that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is focused only on preventing terrorism, one office within that agency has a humanitarian mission. Its Asylum Office adjudicates applications from people fleeing persecution in their homelands. Lives in the Balance is a careful empirical analysis of how Homeland Security decided these asylum cases over a recent fourteen-year period. Day in and day out, asylum officers make decisions with life-or-death consequences: determining which applicants are telling the truth and are at risk of persecution in their home countries, and which are ineligible for refugee status in America. In Lives in the Balance, the authors analyze a database of 383,000 cases provided to them by the government in order to better understand the effect on grant rates of a host of factors unrelated to the merits of asylum claims, including the one-year filing deadline, whether applicants entered the United States with a visa, whether applicants had dependents, whether they were represented, how many asylum cases their adjudicator had previously decided, and whether or not their adjudicator was a lawyer. The authors also examine the degree to which decisions were consistent among the eight regional asylum offices and within each of those offices. The authors’ recommendations, including repeal of the one-year deadline, would improve the adjudication process by reducing the impact of non-merits factors on asylum decisions. If adopted by the government, these proposals would improve the accuracy of outcomes for those whose lives hang in the balance.
The Law of Asylum in the United States
Author: Deborah E. Anker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
This book provides a detailed guide to the substantive and procedural law of asylum and refugee protection in the United States. In approaching this task it combines detailed discussions of actual doctrine and case law with explanations of the important details of this law's administrative practice. After defining what is meant by the term 'asylum', the author examines the legal framework which exists for the protection of refugees or asylum seekers. Given that this framework is derived from sources of both international and domestic law, the author devotes separate sections to international law, international refugee law and domestic law. The author then clarifies which individuals are entitled to apply for asylum and the withholding of deportation, before attempting a 'when, where and how' appraisal of the application procedure itself. The book presents a comprehensive assessment of the applicant's rights and examines the criteria which must be fulfilled, in theory, for an application to be successful (i.e. for a persecution claim to be proved). Finally, the book has some interesting features in its lengthy appendices: a list of lawyers who have had experience in representing asylum claimants from different countries (contact addresses testify to the book's function as a practical guide); a human rights documentation resource list; and the reproduction, in detail, of both case summaries and the full texts of several decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
This book provides a detailed guide to the substantive and procedural law of asylum and refugee protection in the United States. In approaching this task it combines detailed discussions of actual doctrine and case law with explanations of the important details of this law's administrative practice. After defining what is meant by the term 'asylum', the author examines the legal framework which exists for the protection of refugees or asylum seekers. Given that this framework is derived from sources of both international and domestic law, the author devotes separate sections to international law, international refugee law and domestic law. The author then clarifies which individuals are entitled to apply for asylum and the withholding of deportation, before attempting a 'when, where and how' appraisal of the application procedure itself. The book presents a comprehensive assessment of the applicant's rights and examines the criteria which must be fulfilled, in theory, for an application to be successful (i.e. for a persecution claim to be proved). Finally, the book has some interesting features in its lengthy appendices: a list of lawyers who have had experience in representing asylum claimants from different countries (contact addresses testify to the book's function as a practical guide); a human rights documentation resource list; and the reproduction, in detail, of both case summaries and the full texts of several decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals.
Training Program on the Representation of Haitian Asylum Applicants
Representing Asylum Seekers
Author: Sarah Ignatius
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asylum, Right of
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asylum, Right of
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description