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The Asylum Filing Deadline: Denying Protection to the Persecuted and Undermining Governmental Efficiency

The Asylum Filing Deadline: Denying Protection to the Persecuted and Undermining Governmental Efficiency

Human Rights First

Paperback

General Law

ISBN10: 0984366431
ISBN13: 9780984366439
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 30 2010
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.12 Width: 7.99 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
This report calls on Congress to eliminate a technical asylum filing deadline in U.S. law that has barred thousands of legitimate refugees with well-founded fears of persecution from receiving asylum in the United States. The report finds that in the 12 years since the provision took effect, more than 53,400 asylum applications have been rejected, denied or delayed based on the deadline and many of these cases have been pushed unnecessarily into the already overstretched immigration court system. The report uses real case examples and Human Rights First's own refugee representation experience to demonstrate the harmful effects of the provision. That provision has consistently denied asylum to persecuted individuals in ways that are inconsistent with the nation's leadership in protecting victims of political, religious and other forms of persecution and has caused inefficiencies and delays in the asylum system and diverted significant governmental resources.

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