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Issue Briefs and Other Resources |
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Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Andrew Schoenholtz, and Philip G. Schrag,
"Refugee Roulette: Disparities
in Asylum Adjudication,"
Stanford Law Review, Vol.
60, 2008, available at SSRN:
http://ssrn.com/abstract=983946.
From the abstract:
"The analysis reveals significant disparities in grant rates, even when
different adjudicators in the same office each considered large numbers
of applications from nationals of the same country. In many cases,
the most important moment in an asylum case is the instant in which a
clerk randomly assigns an application to a particular asylum officer or
immigration judge." (The study's complete text can be obtained
from SSRN.) (See also: Julia Preston, "Big Disparities in
Judging of Asylum Cases," New
York Times, May 31, 2007.)
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Information
from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services |
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USCIS information regarding
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) (link is to USCIS
website). Information for nationals or former residents of
Sudan, Somalia, Burundi, El Salvador,
Liberia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Montserrat,
Sierra Leone, Angola, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, dating
to May 2000. |
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Information regarding temporary protected status (TPS) and employment
authorization is available on the
Employment Eligibility Verification
and Antidiscrimination Protections page.
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Immigrants' Rights Update Articles
(back
to IRU index) |
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Liberians Provided Deferred Enforced
Departure
(10/5/07) |
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Temporary Protected Status
Designations Renewed for El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua
(10/5/07) |
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Liberian TPS
Ends Oct. 1, but Liberia Remains a Tinderbox
(2/20/07) |
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Haitian
Protection Act Would Grant TPS to Haitians in U.S.
(2/20/07) |
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U.S. Commission
on International Religious Freedom Criticizes U.S. Handling of
Asylum-Seekers
(2/20/07) |
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3,600 Liberians
Will Lose TPS on Oct. 1, 2007; Employment Authorization of Liberians
with TPS Extended through April 1, 2007
(12/6/06) |
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TPS extended for
Somalia; EADs automatically extended through Mar. 17, 2007;
Reregistration deadline is Sept. 25
(8/23/06) |
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TPS extended for
El Salvador; EADs automatically extended through Mar. 9, 2007;
Reregistration deadline is Sept. 1st!
(8/23/06) |
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TPS extended for
Honduras and Nicaragua; EADs automatically extended through Jan. 5,
2007; Reregistration deadline is June 1!
(5/23/06) |
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TPS for El Salvador, Honduras, and
Nicaragua to be extended
(3/23/06) |
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TPS extended for
Somalia, Liberia, Burundi & Sudan (10/5/05) |
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Mohammed v.
Gonzalez
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9th Circuit finds that female genital mutilation constitutes
ongoing persecution (3/31/05) |
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TPS for El
Salvador extended 18 mos.: Reregistration period
ends Mar. 8 (2/10/05) |
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