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ImmigrationProf Blog
9th Circuit allows FGM Case to go Forward
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed a Northern California family whose daughter underwent forced circumcision in Indonesia to seek political asylum in the United States. The court criticized…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Obama Admin. To Allow Battered Women To Receive Asylum
NY Times: New Policy Permits Asylum for Battered Women, by Julia Preston:The Obama administration has opened the way for foreign women who are victims of severe domestic beatings and sexual abuse to…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Asylum Grant to Filipino Gay Professor Final
The federal government has decided not to appeal the political asylum granted a gay Filipino professor who claimed in immigration court that he was repeatedly abused as a child in…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Second Circuit Vacates and Remands Togolese Citizen’s Asylum Claim
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Baba v. Holder vacated a Board of Immigration Appeals ruling that a Togolese citizen had the burden of proving he…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Refugee and Asylee Data
This report From DHS presents information on the number and characteristics of persons admitted as refugees or granted asylum to the United States in fiscal year 2008: Refugees and Asylees:…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Morawetz on Asylum Denied
Professor Nancy Morawetz (NYU) has written a review of Asylum Denied by Phil Schrag and David Ngaruri Kenney, an excellent story and indictment of the U.S. immigration and asylum system The review,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Amnesty International Ceases Direct Representation on Detention
We are sorry to inform you that Amnesty International USA is no longer providing individual assistance in matters of asylum, other forms of protection, or immigration in the United States. …
ImmigrationProf Blog
Asylum Regs Changed
The Department of Homeland Security is reforming its asylum rules to provide that U.S. Citizenship & Immigration services will no longer forward all affirmative asylum applications to the Departmenmt of State.…
Media Law Prof Blog
Mexican Journalist Asks For Asylum in US
National Public Radio has this story about Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez Soto's request for political asylum in the U.S., based on stories he has written about crime in northern Chihuahua.…
International Law Prof Blog
Christopher Nugent Speaks about work with Iraqi Refugees
Christopher Nugent, an attorney with the Washington, D.C. firm of Holland and Knight, was the Lesar Lecturer at the Southern Illinois University School of Law yesterday. Mr. Nugent spoke about…