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Discover LudwigThe phrase "asylum applicant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an individual who has applied for asylum, typically in the context of immigration or refugee status.
Example: "The asylum applicant submitted their paperwork to the immigration office last week."
Alternatives: "refugee applicant" or "asylum seeker".
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Upon request of the alien and as a matter of discretion, the asylum officer or immigration judge having jurisdiction may permit an asylum applicant to amend or supplement the application, but any delay caused by such request shall extend the period within which the applicant may not apply for employment authorization in accordance with § 208.7(a).
"The allocation of judge for an asylum applicant was crucial".
But Mr. Lai, 42, who quietly appears at detention hearings dressed in green prison garb, is no ordinary asylum applicant.
Would a more ethically sensible, neutral and accurate term not serve us better - such as "asylum applicant"?
But under an agreement last fall with European donor nations, Afghanistan must accept every failed asylum applicant.
He had been obligated to consider factors like the troubled domestic situation in Afghanistan, he said, as well as the individual circumstances of each asylum applicant.
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There were 5,600 asylum applications in Belgium in August, 47 per cent of them from Iraqis, but the weekly flow of asylum applicants into Brussels has now reached 1,900.
These asylum applicants know they won't get it.
Eritreans comprised 27% of Norway's asylum applicants last year.
Likewise when there is a reduction of asylum applicants.
Of successful asylum applicants, thirty-two per cent were Chinese.
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