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refugee approvals The number of refugees approved for admission to the United States during a fiscal year. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
Displaced 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 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....
Approved schools
Approved schools. These schools are schools intended for the education and training of persons to be sent there in pursuance of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (see s. 79(1) and approved by the Secretary of State. They are regulated by ss. 79-83 of that Act. Local authorities may under certain circumstances undertake the purchase, establishment, building, alteration, enlargement, rebuilding or management of an approved school (s. 80). The Secretary of State may classify approved schools as he thinks best calculated to secure that a person sent to an approved school is sent to the school appropriate to his case. With certain exceptions the managers of an approved school are bound to accept any person sent there in pursuance of the Act (s. 81). The expression 'approved school' was first used in the Children and Young Persons Act, 1932, which was declared to apply in relation to a school which at the commencement of this Act is a certified reformatory school or a certified indust...
Approval
Approval, in the context of an administrative act, the word 'approval' does not mean anything more than either confirming, ratifying, assenting, sanctioning or consenting, Vijayadevi Narulkishore Bhastia v. Land Accuisition Officer, (2003) 5 SCC 83 (87). [Land Accuisition Act, 1894, s. 11(1)]Approval, does not mean anything more than either conferring, ratifying assenting, sanctioning or consenting. This is only an administrative power which limits the jurisdiction of the authority to apply its mind to see whether the proposed award is acceptable to the government or not, Vijayadevi Navalkishore Bhartia v. Land Acquisition Officer, (2003) 5 SCC 83....
Approval and Acceptance
Approval and Acceptance, -- Expression 'approval' presupposes an existing order. 'Acceptance' means communicated acceptance. A distinction exists between the expressions 'approval' and 'acceptance', Ashok Kumar Sahu v. Union of India, AIR 2006 SC 2879. [All India Services Act, 1951, s. 3]...
approval notice
approval notice A U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) immigration form, Notice of Action Form I-797, that says that USCIS has approved a petition, or request for extension of stay or change of status. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
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