Last week, the Joint Voluntary Agency, which processes resettlement applications of refugees on behalf of the United States government, picked up and left the country days before a major interview session.
Under an EU agreement called the Dublin II Regulation (previously the Dublin Convention), the asylum applications of refugees had to be dealt with by the country in which those people first arrived in the EU.
If that seems somewhat obvious, the sad fact is that the right to cook is not a right recognised by the Irish government, at least not under the strictures of its Direct Provision (DP) regulations, as they are applied to the few thousand asylum seekers who are housed in dozens of locations around Ireland, awaiting a decision of their application for refugee status.
Wasid showed the Guardian his military ID and application for refugee status, copies of which have been kept.
Because of his profile, his application for refugee status was fast-tracked, and he was resettled in Australia just a couple of weeks ago.
Her initial application for refugee status was rejected.
According to Sabine Haddad, spokeswoman for the Interior Ministry's Population, Immigration and Border Authority, out of 7,000 applications for refugee status in the past three years, 16 have been granted.
By the end of 2014, he said, Japan had approved a cumulative total of just 633 applications for refugee status.
"Specific information on the support provided by the UNHCR regarding the processing of refugee applications and support for the applicants during their stay in Mexico will be made public as soon as a formal response is received," Mexico's foreign ministry said in a Thursday statement.
Ten years ago, in Vienna, it was déjà vu all over again: the U.S. Embassy suddenly started denying nearly one-third of refugee applications of Jews from Iran, and nearly half of all applications from Iranian Christians.
