The phrase "asylum claimants" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to individuals who have applied for asylum, typically in the context of immigration or refugee discussions.
Example: "The government has implemented new policies to support asylum claimants during their application process."
Alternatives: "asylum seekers" or "refugee applicants".
That is not surprising, given the rise in asylum claimants that began in the late 1990s.
Yet asylum claimants are often asked to perform an impossible task.
I receive requests every few weeks to write expert-witness affidavits for West African asylum claimants.
Concerns were also raised over training and supervision of those involved in the enforced removal of failed asylum claimants.
The system that New Labour inherited was inefficient and overly complex, with many asylum claimants waiting several years before their cases were resolved.
In the latest policy move, Berlin and Brussels are pressing the transit countries of the Balkans to set up new "processing centres" to screen asylum claimants.
"Civil servants and judges often wrongly label bisexual men and women as gay or lesbian, failing to appreciate it is a unique identity, or impose their narrow understanding of bisexuality on an asylum claimant," he said.
Nigeria is on the list not because there is no danger of persecution in that state – the murderous statistics of Boko Haram, the group Muazu feared, speak for themselves – but because an asylum claimant must show they cannot seek state protection and cannot relocate internally before they can succeed in obtaining international protection.
When the reform was under discussion, immigrant-support groups did a survey and found that most asylum-claimants were helped by their family or community.
In January, the members of the European Union, with Norway and Iceland, launched Eurodac, a system to fingerprint all asylum-claimants and share the information throughout the region.
A Decade of PhotoSendingLondon's Southbasylumate Park.
