Refugee - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: refugeeDisplaced Person and refugee
Displaced Person and refugee, the expression 'dis-placed person' or the word 'refugee' has been used in the relevant enactments with reference to a person who has migrated to India as a result of disturbances or fear of disturbances or the partition of the country. Therefore, if a person had died before the disturbances took place or he had never migrated to India as a result of the disturbances and he died before such migration he could not come within the meaning of the expression 'displaced person' or the word 'refugee' under the relevant statutory enactment's, Chief Settlement Commissioner v. Om Prakash, AIR 1969 SC 33: (1968) 3 SCR 655. [Punjab (Refugees Registration of Land Claims) Act, 1948, (12 of 1948)]...
refugee approvals
refugee approvals The number of refugees approved for admission to the United States during a fiscal year. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
refugee arrivals
refugee arrivals The number of refugees admitted to the United States through ports of entry during a fiscal year. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
refugee authorized admissions
refugee authorized admissions The maximum number of refugees allowed to enter the United States in a given fiscal year. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
refugee
refugee : an individual seeking refuge or asylum ;esp : an individual who has left his or her native country and is unwilling or unable to return to it because of persecution or fear of persecution (as because of race, religion, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion) ...
Refugee
Refugee, to any person who owing to well founded fear of being persecuted for reason of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country, Reg. v. I.A.T., Ex p Shah [HL (E)], (1999) 2 WLR 1015....
resettlement
resettlement Permanent relocation of refugees in a place outside their country of origin to allow them to establish residence and become productive members of society there. Refugee resettlement is accomplished with the direct assistance of private voluntary agencies working with the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
Persecution
Persecution, implies a failure by the State to make protection available against the ill-treatment or violence which the person suffers at the hands of his persecutors, Horvath v. Home Secretary [HL(E)], (2000) 3 WLR 379.Persecution, is most appropriately defined as the sustained or systemic failure of State protection in relation to one of the core entitlements which has been recognised by the international community, Law of Refugee Status (1991), p. 112.Persecution, is normally related to action by the authorities of a country. It may also emanate from sections of the population that do not respect the standards established by the laws of the country concerned. A case in point may be religious intolerance, amounting to persecution, in a country otherwise secular, but where sizable fractions of the population do not respect the religious beliefs of their neighbours. Where serious discriminatory or other offensive acts are committed by the local populace, they can be considered as pers...
adjustment to immigrant status
adjustment to immigrant status Procedure allowing certain aliens already in the United States to apply for immigrant status. Aliens admitted to the United States in a nonimmigrant, refugee, or parolee category may have their status changed to that of lawful permanent resident if they are eligible to receive an immigrant visa and one is immediately available. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
asylum
asylum : protection from arrest and extradition given esp. to political refugees by a nation or by an embassy or other agency that has diplomatic immunity ...
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