What is the ABC Settlement Agreement?

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Brian D. Lerner

In 1985, a group of religious organizations and refugee advocacy organizations filed a class action lawsuit in federal court against the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (INS), the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) and the United States Department of State (DOS). The lawsuit is known as American Baptist Churches v. Thornburgh, 760 F. [...]

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What is Refugee Processing?

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Brian D. Lerner

The U.S. Attorney General has statutory discretionary authority to admit any refugee who is not firmly resettled in a third country, who is determined to be of special humanitarian concern, and who is admissible as an immigrant. The Attorney General has delegated this authority to the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (INS). In both [...]

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Asylum: Other Issues

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Brian D. Lerner

Can I Travel Outside the United States? If you are applying for asylum and you want to travel outside the United States, you must receive advance permission before you leave the United States in order to return to the United States. This advance permission is called Advance Parole. If you do not apply for Advance [...]

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How to Apply for Asylum?

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Brian D. Lerner

To be eligible for asylum in the United States, you must ask for asylum at a port-of-entry (airport, seaport or border crossing), or file an application within one year of your arrival in the United States. You may ask later than one year if conditions in your country have changed or if your personal circumstances [...]

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What is the ABC settlement agreement?

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Brian D. Lerner

In 1985, a group of religious organizations and refugee advocacy organizations filed a class action lawsuit in federal court against the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (INS), the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) and the United States Department of State (DOS). The lawsuit is known as American Baptist Churches v. Thornburgh, 760 F. [...]

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