Refugee - Any person who is outside his or her country of nationality who is unable or unwilling to return to that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution.
Refugee
(n) Refugee is the person who has fled form his native country for reasons of political or natural unrest, war, starvation, threat of prosecution etc.
"Convention refugee is statutorily defined and means any person who, by reason of a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion, ...
refugee authorized admissions The maximum number of refugees allowed to enter the United States in a given fiscal year.
REFUGEE: A person who applies to enter the U.S. from outside the country, claiming an inability or unwillingness to return to (or remain in) the home country because of a well-founded fear of persecution.
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In the context of U.S. immigration law, people who have been allowed to live in the United States indefinitely to protect them from persecution in their home countries. Refugees get their status before coming to the U.S.
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Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
Regulación Antimonopolio y Comercial ...
Refugees and "boat People"
The immigration of thousands of people from Southeast Asia in the 1970s and 1980s impacted American-Vietnamese relations and gave rise to new communities of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, ...
In modern international law, the granting of asylum to refugees from other lands is the right of a state by virtue of its territorial sovereignty.
(The grounds are the same as for refugee status, but the application process is different -- refugees apply while they're still outside the United States.) Asylees can apply for a green card one year after their asylum approval.
Aliens admitted to the United States in a nonimmigrant, refugee, or parolee category may have their status changed to that of lawful permanent resident if they are eligible to receive an immigrant visa and one is immediately available.
Extradition treaties are undertakings between states curtailing the exercise of the right of asylum in respect of refugees from justice, ...
Nationality law is often discussed or studied along with immigration law (for those immigrant-receiving countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) and with refugee or asylum law.
 See also: Law, State, United states, Count, Person
  
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