The government has said that no one holding one of these cards will be deported until a formal "decision" has been issued on their status.
Anyone who has applied for asylum in Greece will not be deported until their claims have been processed in the next two weeks, Xydakis said.
Judge Raymond Sears ruled that the plaintiff, who fled to Hong Kong in 1988, may not be deported until his case is resolved, a process that could end in London's highest court, the Privy Council.
She then spent thirty-eight days in an immigration-detention center, in Alabama, and was supposed to be deported, until a national outcry over her case led Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to reconsider, and she was allowed to return home.
A US Marshals Service spokesperson said that the Couches could not be deported until legal matters were resolved.
Given her lawyers did not learn she was being deported until after it had happened, this seems like a terribly credible claim.
The case has triggered a diplomatic scramble to keep China from repatriating the nine defectors while highlighting the plight of North Korean refugees, who are perpetually at risk of being deported until they are able to claim asylum in Southeast Asia.
The official did not respond to a request for comment on why the mother and daughter were put on the plane early Thursday in spite of indications, according to the judge, that they would not be deported until 11 59 p.m. at the earliest.
Because Haitian authorities forbid Vereus from making a phone call when he arrived in Haiti, his family didn't find out he had been deported and jailed until a reporter contacted Fritzner the next day.
Lopez-Sanchez had already been deported five times and, until March, had been in prison since 2011 for illegally re-entering the country, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
