Sentence examples for candidate for asylum from inspiring English sources
"Chen Guangcheng is a very strong candidate for asylum," said Susan L. Shirk, a former State Department official who is now a professor at the University of California, San Diego.
Border Patrol agents interviewing terrified nine-year-olds lack the capacity to determine who is a true candidate for asylum.
Today, the first screening of asylum seekers at the border often falls to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who attempt to separate out candidates for asylum and other forms of protection.
[Excerpts, Page A20.] The ruling lent credence to the Miami family's argument that the boy is a bona fide candidate for political asylum.
Officially he is a candidate for political asylum, which allows him to work legally in the United States, and he hopes to become a legal resident later this month after an immigration hearing.
She looked at me as if I were a likely candidate for the lunatic asylum...The battle was on, but we skirted around it.
Twitter was alight after comments by the Liberal candidate for Lindsay, Fiona Scott, blaming asylum seekers for long hospital waiting times and crowded roads in western Sydney.
When the Obama administration announced a new round of raids aimed at deporting young Central Americans whose petitions for asylum have been denied, both candidates spoke out against the plan. .
His claims for asylum were rejected.
