request for political asylum

He still faces an immigration hearing on his request for political asylum.

These people are eligible to work legally while their requests for political asylum are considered.

Germany turned down their requests for political asylum.

His request for political asylum in Hong Kong was not granted.

Now he is to be released from detention in a military hospital and put under house arrest while Italy considers his request for political asylum.

Of the 18 stowaways, 17 have had their requests for political asylum rejected and are reportedly appealing.

And Mekrikuk himself had complicated matters greatly by having made a formal request for political asylum.

His emigration was accompanied by a news conference that included a request for political asylum and denunciations of America.

I believe we're safe in proceeding with this case as we would with any other request for political asylum."

Immigration officials have issued a new policy on handling requests for political asylum that could spare thousands of refugees detention.

His request for political asylum is scheduled to be heard by a Federal immigration judge on Feb. 10.

We have received a request for political asylum from the Tholian vessel captured by station M-33.

"Has Admiral de la Fuega scheduled a hearing yet on your request for political asylum?"

He will be free on bond while the I.N.S. handles his request for political asylum.

The Haitians' requests for political asylum are mingled with impatient pleas to have their "little boats" back so they can leave.

His first words to the RAF Police were a request for political asylum.

If the Haitians could somehow reach the United States, they would be entitled to a hearing on their request for political asylum.

"The rebels have made a formal request for political asylum, Prime Minister," Jordan replied.

His request for political asylum in the United States was granted pending a routine background check on June 30, 2010.

But Canadian authorities turned down his request for political asylum a year later, saying his account of his background and persecution was not plausible.

The papal nuncio also said he had at no moment contemplated granting General Noriega's request for political asylum.

"Honecker has made no request for political asylum," Mr. Yeltsin told his German interviewer.

An Explosive Political Issue Immigration officials here say they are receiving almost 2,000 requests for political asylum a week.

Request for political asylum in the United States is one of Mogilny's options, but he is reportedly against that option.

Nevertheless, Italy has turned down the immigrants' requests for political asylum and has sent them to a detention center in Rome awaiting expulsion.