8 CFR 208.15 - Definition of ''firm resettlement.''

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  • Asylum Eligibility and Procedural Modifications
    • United States
    • Executive Office For Immigration Review
    • Invalid date
    ...a non-substantive amendment to cross-references in regulations implicated by the IFR to change the reference in 8 CFR 1208.13(c)(4) from 8 CFR 208.15 to 8 CFR 1208.15 because section 1208.13 is in Chapter V of 8 CFR, which governs EOIR, and not Chapter I, which governs \7\ The Intervening J......
  • Procedures for Asylum and Withholding of Removal; Credible Fear and Reasonable Fear Review
    • United States
    • Executive Office For Immigration Review,Homeland Security Department
    • Invalid date
    ...and change references from ``nation'' to ``country,'' the definition of firm resettlement has remained the same for nearly 30 years. See 8 CFR 208.15, Due to the increased availability of resettlement opportunities \41\ and the interest of those genuinely in fear of persecution in attaining......
  • Asylum Eligibility and Procedural Modifications
    • United States
    • Executive Office For Immigration Review
    • Invalid date
    ...asylum eligibility. * * * * * (c) * * * (4) Additional limitation on eligibility for asylum. Notwithstanding the provisions of 8 CFR 208.15, any alien who enters, attempts to enter, or arrives in the United States across the southern land border on or after July 16, 2019, after transiting t......
  • E. Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Barr, Case No. 19-cv-04073-JST
    • United States
    • United States District Courts. 9th Circuit. United States District Courts. 9th Circuit. Northern District of California
    • July 24, 2019
    ...denial of asylum. See Mamouzian v. Ashcroft , 390 F.3d 1129, 1138 (9th Cir. 2004) ("Stays in third countries are now governed by 8 C.F.R. § 208.15, which specifies how and when an opportunity to reside in a third country justifies a denial of asylum."); Andriasian v. I.N.S. , 180 F.3d 1033,......
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  • Covenant v. Barr, Nos. 19-16487
    • United States
    • United States Courts of Appeals. United States Court of Appeals (9th Circuit)
    • July 6, 2020
    ...discretionary denials of asylum in certain circumstances where asylum or its near equivalent was available in a safe third country. 8 C.F.R. § 208.15 (1995). A year later, in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, § 604, Pub. L. No. 104–208, 110 Stat. 3009,......
  • Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union, Local 25 v. Smith, No. 84-5859
    • United States
    • United States Courts of Appeals. United States Court of Appeals (District of Columbia)
    • May 20, 1988
    ...1984 the INS informed Hernandez of its intent to revoke his asylum, giving him fifteen days to examine and rebut the evidence. See 8 C.F.R. Sec. 208.15(b). Hernandez did not respond at all and his asylum was consequently revoked. Paradoxically then, Hernandez' asylum was revoked because he ......
  • de la Llana Castellon v. I.N.S., LLANA-CASTELLO
    • United States
    • United States Courts of Appeals. United States Court of Appeals (10th Circuit)
    • February 16, 1994
    ...while in that nation received, an offer of permanent resident status, citizenship or some other type of permanent resettlement." 8 C.F.R. Sec. 208.15. The BIA should consider on remand whether the additional evidence introduced by Petitioners on appeal clarifying that Petitioner's lega......
  • Maharaj v. Gonzales, No. 03-71066.
    • United States
    • United States Courts of Appeals. United States Court of Appeals (9th Circuit)
    • June 9, 2006
    ...ties in that country; or that the conditions of his residence in that country were so restricted that he was not in fact resettled. 8 C.F.R. § 208.15 The Maharajes lived in Canada for four years after leaving Fiji. They worked in Canada and had a child there. Their older children were affor......
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