Preserving Protection for Derivative Asylum Seekers

Attorneys must ensure they are preserving protection for derivative asylum seekers by filing independent asylum applications for them.

Asylum | USCIS

Starting Aug. 14, 2024, asylum officers conducting threshold screening interviews (TSI) for noncitizens who are processed pursuant to the ...

Asylum in the United States | American Immigration Council

For those individuals, a backstop form of protection known as “withholding of removal” may be available to protect them from harm if necessary.

Seeking Protection: How the U.S. Asylum Process Works

The right to apply for asylum, a type of protection granted to migrants fleeing persecution or other harm in their home countries, has been a central component ...

1.2 Determining refugee status under UNHCR's mandate

If family members/dependents do not qualify for refugee status in their own right, family unity is preserved through granting derivative refugee status to those ...

Chapter 3 - Admissibility and Waiver Requirements - USCIS

An asylee adjustment applicant may have a ground of inadmissibility waived for humanitarian purposes, to assure family unity, or when it is otherwise in the ...

Immigrating the Spouse and Children of Refugees Asylees | USCCB

Derivative Asylum. Persons who have a well-founded fear of persecution in ... Security (DHS) asylum office or in proceedings before an Immigration Judge.

Derivative Asylum for Family | Allan S. Lolly, P.C.

Petition for them through “Refugee/Asylee Relative Petition” form I-730.The derivative family members must file the petition within two years after the main ...

Protecting Refugees - UNHCR

Training of key stakeholders from the government and civil society on basic protection issues, including refugee rights, reception conditions for asylum-seekers ...

Application of the Child Status Protection Act to Asylees and Refugees

2. Before the CSPA, individuals would have become ineligible to immigrate as derivatives of their parents if they turned 21 while their parents' applications ...

What happens once asylum seekers arrive in the U.S.?

The act of seeking asylum is a legal right protected under international and domestic U.S. law. Asylum provides a lifeline to those fleeing ...

How the "lawful Pathways” Asylum Ban Impacts Children & Youth

Asylum is an important form of protection for people who are fleeing certain types of harm in their home countries. Even though seeking asylum is a right ...

The Case for Granting Derivative Asylum to Parents - BrooklynWorks

to a child of an asylum seeker and the derivative asylum statute should apply to both.201 ... Refugee law was designed to protect against persecution and pro-.

Asylum in the United States - American Immigration Council

border or already in the United States apply for asylum, a form of protection from persecution. Asylum seekers must navigate a difficult and complex.

basic procedural manual for asylum representation affirmatively

only available to asylum applicants who establish past persecution on account of a protected ground by ... Derivative Asylum for Spouse and Children. In ...

Five Things to Know About the Right to Seek Asylum

Seeking asylum is a human right protected under our laws. · To be granted asylum, people must come to the U.S. or the border and must prove their ...

Asylees: 2023 - Office of Homeland Security Statistics

asylum officers may consider the asylum applications of certain ... may obtain derivative asylum status.14 A principal asylee may ...

INS Guidelines For Children's Asylum Claims

Because of the unique vulnerability and circumstances of children, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) considers it appropriate to issue guidance ...

Asylum & the Rights of Refugees

In practice, this means that applicants must show that one of the protected grounds was or will be at least one central reason for the persecution. See, e.g., 8 ...

In the Best Interests of the Child Asylum-Seeker: A Threat to Family ...

The asylum system is no friend to the child refugee. It is blind to accompanied minors, treating them as derivatives (that is, objects) of their ...