Sentence examples for applications of asylum from inspiring English sources

In "How to Read the Air," a novel by Dinaw Mengestu published last year, the narrator, Jonas Woldemariam, describes how he worked for a spell at a refugee resettlement center in Manhattan, sorting the applications of asylum seekers — and, at times, embellishing them.

The UN's refugee agency said it was concerned that the patchy application of asylum policy across the continent meant that Syrians were not being given proper protection in Europe.

Critics say the mass expulsion would violate EU regulations and the UN Refugee Convention, which mandates that countries who have signed it examine the application of all asylum seekers.

There are no details about the sex of each of the applicants nor for the number of asylum applications received this year.

This is against a backdrop of declining numbers of asylum applications across Europe over the past decade – in particular, UNHCR report a drop of 33% in applications in southern EU member states between 2009 and 2010.

The European Union is expected to receive its highest-ever annual number of asylum applications by the end of this year, after a record-breaking 626,000 applications were reviewed in 2014.

About 70percentt of asylum applications fail because the government determines the applicants to be economic migrants rather than people who need political protection.

The stated purpose of the treaty is "promoting the orderly handling of asylum applications".

The number of asylum applications in 2015 to date is more than three times that.

The guidance is used by UK immigration officials to determine the legitimacy of asylum applications.

This guidance is used by UK immigration officials to determine the legitimacy of asylum applications.