Previously migrants had been transferred from Lampedusa to Sicily, where those not given refugee status eventually received an essentially meaningless expulsion order.
As a refugee, you are required by law to apply for permanent resident status 1 year after being admitted to the United States in refugee status.
And although 158 of them did get somehow get UN refugee status, pending resettlement by America and others, they were deported anyway.
Canada imposed rules requiring visas for all visitors from the Czech Republic and Mexico, following a surge in arrivals seeking refugee status.
David Miliband, a former British foreign secretary who heads the IRC, jokes that securing refugee status is the most arduous route to America that does not involve swimming the Atlantic.
In 2008 less than 1% of applicants were granted refugee status immediately, although 11% of those who appealed were successful.
40, You don't qualify for asylum, refugee status , temporary protective status , humanitarian parole or non-immigration work travel.
