Despite this, Iraqis continue to be the largest nationality seeking asylum in the industrialized world.
The Kremlin's leaders do not seem to have offered Mr Bakiyev asylum in Moscow, as they did to his predecessor.
Although Amin never gained official asylum, he was allowed to perform an extended pilgrimage, involving 23 years mostly in hotels and villas in Jeddah.
To qualify for refugee or asylum status, you must have a well-founded fear of persecution based on race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political affiliation.
Belgium granted asylum to the political refugees.
Here is an asylum for the care of mentally ill or destitute people.
The law about university asylum I believe is a fantastic achievement of the university movement, but we should protect it by not allowing criminal offenses to happen inside.
The authors, from the London School of Economics (LSE), reckon people whose asylum claims have been rejected but who have not returned home account for most of the growth.
Despite Ms Gillard's claim that it would deter asylum-seekers from making dangerous sea journeys, the plan was more about shifting all asylum processing offshore: anywhere but Australia.
ask for/be granted political asylum,ie protection given to a political refugee by a foreign country
In those days, Lee feared a prolonged crisis might cause bloodshed and chaos, he worried that Marcos might fight it out if he had no place to go, so he invited Marcos to take political asylum in Singapore.
Redmond says the growing number of Afghans seeking asylum is a worrying sign.
The former head of the East German secret service, Markus Wolf, turned himself in to the authorities here on Saturday and applied for political asylum, officials said today.
On landing, we immediately sought asylum.
He wants to clamp down hard on immigration and would reinstate Mr Howard's unedifying policy of diverting asylum-seekers to impoverished Pacific island microstates.
Zhang Qi left China in 2000. He was granted political asylum by U.S. government the next year.
The report says the number of Iraqi asylum seekers declined by 10 percent in 2008.
On Albania granting asylum for 5 Chinese Uighur citizens, Liu Jianchao said that China has yet to receive the official notification of the Albanian government.
seek/ask for/be granted political asylum
The dip has provided breathing space for the Home Office, which has been battling a build-up of up to 450, 000 unresolved asylum cases, some dating back more than a decade.
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