Sentence examples for applying for refugee from inspiring English sources

The largest numbers applying for refugee status came from Iran and Iraq.

Many go through legal channels, applying for refugee status and then asylum.

They also call for scrutiny of people applying for refugee status as close relatives of refugees already living in America.

The statistics also showed that asylum applications were at their highest for 12 years, with 10,156 people applying for refugee status between July and September.

Even for those Iraqis lucky enough to be tapped by the United Nations, the process of applying for refugee status is expensive, risky and has no guarantee of success.

Hernández and her family are also applying for refugee status in Mexico – part of a growing number of migrants seeking asylum here after a Washington-backed crackdown launched in July 2014 made it much harder to reach the US.

The couple applied for refugee status in Moscow.

I applied for refugee status, but was refused.

In 2015, the family applied for refugee status and were granted it.

Many of Makhzomy's friends have emigrated to the west or applied for refugee status.

More than 7,500 people applied for refugee status in 2015, up 52percentt from a year earlier.