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Refugee Status
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ImmigrationProf Blog
UNHCR Tools for Teaching about Refugees and Asylum Seekers
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees offers simple explanations of refugees, internally displaced people, and stateless people. Their animated videos can be used to in an introductory classroom or even…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Unrepresented Families Seeking Asylum on “Dedicated Docket” Ordered Deported by Immigration Courts
The latest from TRAC Immigration:"According to the latest case-by-case records through December 2021 from the Immigration Courts, over 72,000 cases involving asylum seeking families have been assigned to the Court’s…
Immigration Lawyers Blog
Immigration Weekly Round-Up: Remain in Mexico Program Continues Despite Legal Appeals; New Jersey Supporting Refugees from Afghanistan
Remain in Mexico Program Expands While Federal Court Appeals Continue Despite calls from the Biden administration to end the Migrant Protection Protocols program, more commonly known as the “MPP” or…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Remain in Mexico Policy Continues After Trump
Official White House PhotoThe Remain in Mexico policy, which allowed asylum seekers to be returned to Mexico while their asylum claims were decided, was one of the signature immigration policies…
ImmigrationProf Blog
U.S. Citizens Placed on Watch List While Taking Part in Caravan Through Mexico
From MSN News:The pastor of a historic New York church is asking a federal court to sanction immigration officials, arguing that they offered “false or at best misleading” accounts in…
Knowledge Centre
The Correct Test for Cessation of Refugee Status
By Wendy Barnes
In a judgment given in September 2021 in PS (cessation principles) Zimbabwe [2021] UKUT 00283 (IAC), the Upper Tribunal considered the correct approach to cessation of refugee status. This was…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Litigation on Work Permits for Asylum Seekers
From the American Immigration Council: Federal Court Argument in Lawsuit Challenge to Delays to Work Permits for Asylum SeekersWhat:The federal district court in the Northern District of California will hear…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Third Circuit Denies Asylum Claim on Grounds that Women are Not a Particular Social Group
By Tracy Thomas
Chavez-Chilel v. US (3d Cir. Dec. 6, 2021)Finding substantial evidence supported the BIA’s conclusion that “Guatemalan women” is not a particular social group (“PSG”) for asylum or withholding purposes, we…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Former Danish Immigration Minister Convicted Over Order to Separate Asylum-Seeking Couples
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia CommonsUntil a public uproar forced a change in policy, the Trump administration engaged in the separation of migrant parents and children apprehended along the U.S./Mexico border. …
McEntee Law Group Blog
Weekly Review: December 6th-December 10th
This week, we read about Haitian asylum-seekers being mistreated by ICE, how the Omicron variant is affecting travel restrictions, and how Afghan refugees are spending their time at military bases.…