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  2. Asylum seeker - Wikipedia

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    An asylum seeker is a person who leaves their country of residence, enters another country, and makes in that other country a formal application for the right of asylum according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 14. [3] A person keeps the status of asylum seeker until the right of asylum application has concluded.

  3. Asylum in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Issues with translation, especially those created through cultural and linguistic differences, often lead to confusion and disadvantage the asylum seeker. This can be due to a lack of understanding on the refugees' end as to what they are supposed to discuss or a misinterpretation of the refugees' discourse by the legal professional working ...

  4. Refugee - Wikipedia

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    An asylum seeker may have applied for Convention refugee status or for complementary forms of protection. Asylum is thus a category that includes different forms of protection. Which form of protection is offered depends on the legal definition that best describes the asylum seeker's reasons to flee. Once the decision was made the asylum seeker ...

  5. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees - Wikipedia

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    The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, also known as the 1951 Refugee Convention or the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951 is a United Nations multilateral treaty that defines who a refugee is and sets out the rights of individuals who are granted asylum and the responsibilities of nations that grant asylum.

  6. 'I came here as an asylum seeker and want to give ... - AOL

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    Saeid Hashemi came to the UK from Iran as an asylum seeker. After being granted refugee status, he settled in Sheffield and now wants to give something back to his community. The BBC met him as he ...

  7. Voluntary return - Wikipedia

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    In The Return from Egypt by James Tissot, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph voluntarily leave Egypt to go to Nazareth after King Herod's death.. Voluntary return or voluntary repatriation is the return of an migrant such as undocumented immigrants, rejected asylum seekers, refugees, unaccompanied minors, as well as second-generation immigrants [1] who with their own free-will make an autonomous decision ...

  8. Moroccan asylum-seeker gets life sentence for killing UK ...

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    A Moroccan asylum-seeker who stabbed a British retiree to death in revenge for Israel’s war against Hamas was sentenced Friday to at least 45 years in prison for what the judge termed a ...

  9. An asylum-seeker in the UK has died onboard a moored ... - AOL

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    An asylum-seeker on board a barge housing migrants off the south coast of England has died and a police investigation has been launched, British officials said Tuesday. A Dorset Police ...