Asylum

Speaker: Michael Pierce

The Refugee Action Collective (RAC) held a vigil on Monday, 26 October, at 5.30pm at Federation Square to demand fair treatment of refugees risking their lives to come to Australia by boat while escaping from war-torn countries. They are also demanding that refugees be processed on the Australian mainland and provided with a safe haven when they arrive.

The vigil was supported by the Tamil Community. Currently Tamil refugees are escaping from Sri Lanka by boat to Australia due to large scale human rights abuses against Sri Lanka’s Tamil population.

RAC believes that asylum seekers are not illegal and have a right to have their claims assessed immediately. Mandatory detention is a cruel and unnecessary policy that the Australian people disagree with. The overwhelming majority of asylum seekers qualify for refugee status under international law.

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Politician Fiona Hyslop, Slab Boys author John Byrne, XFM DJ Heather Suttie, and ex-Delgado Emma Pollock take part in a series of home visits to refugees and asylum seekers across Glasgow to swap stories of home and mark the launch of the Refugee Week Scotland 09 programme.

Refugee Week 2009 (15-21 June) is an exciting programme of events happening across the country to celebrate diversity and raise awareness of refugee issues, in partnership with Homecoming Scotland and the celebration of the 250th Anniversary of Robert Burns’ birth.

Visit http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/ for more information.

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Politician Fiona Hyslop, Slab Boys author John Byrne, XFM DJ Heather Suttie, and ex-Delgado Emma Pollock take part in a series of home visits to refugees and asylum seekers across Glasgow to swap stories of home and mark the launch of the Refugee Week Scotland 09 programme.

Refugee Week 2009 (15-21 June) is an exciting programme of events happening across the country to celebrate diversity and raise awareness of refugee issues, in partnership with Homecoming Scotland and the celebration of the 250th Anniversary of Robert Burns’ birth.

Visit http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/ for more information.

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As the home office does not recognise me as a refugee and did not believe my asylum application, can they refuse me entry should I travel to my former country for a funeral or a memorial?

You would need to apply for a travel document, which would most likely be endorsed "valid for travel to all countries except *****" Also, if you travelled there now it would very likely affect any future application for extension of DLR, or a potential future fresh asylum application.

i met a man in greece who is a refugge from ghana but seeking assylum in greece. we met over the internet. how would it be legal and possible to marry him and be with him and bring him here to america? can anyone helpo me out?

Why is he a refugee from Ghana seeking asylum? That doesn’t make sense as there is no reason for people to flee Ghana unless they are homosexual, which is illegal in Ghana. Otherwise there are no wars in Ghana, the country is stable, the economy is growing and there is freedom of religion. Ghana is actually a country that accepts refugees form places like Liberia and Togo who have conflicts in their countries.

How well do you really know this person? Are you sure hes an actual asylum seeker and not an economic migrant? If youve never met, can you really be sure hes not just using you to come to the US since hes had no luck getting a visa in an EU country? You cant get a fiance visa if you havent met and have proof youve spent time together so thats the first step you have to take. If he has no legal status in Greece hed probably have to go back to Ghana to wait for his fiance visa after you met as you need to be interviewed at the embassy in your country of legal residence.

Here in the UK it would appear the establishment can’t tell the difference.
& the general public just have to stand by & watch as essential services, hospitals, schools & such like, are given away to all-comers, regardless of their lack of input into the system, should anyone object just call them selfish racists.

It also doesn’t pay to mention that not all asylum-seekers/immigrants/refugees mean us no harm.
For that we’re called paranoid, selfish & racist!

I am a Colombian citizen of 22 years of age, and I was brought to the US when I was only 14. Soon after my parents arrived to this country with us, their children, my father petitioned/applied for political asylum. In our case, he is the main victim, and pretty much the whole case refers to him. We, the whole family recently were granted political asylum and received the status of refugees … I miss my home country to death, and was wondering if it would be possible for my to travel back to Colombia under the status of refugee … I’m just a beneficiary we could say.

This is a good question for the immigration authorities who granted your parents political asylum.

You will want to know that if you travel home you will not be detained somehow because of your connection to your father (who obviously was in danger).

If you’ve been recognized as a refugee and resettled in some other country, then under most circumstances you won’t be able to successfully apply for asylum in a different country. Now if you’re claming that you remain in danger in this other country, you can apply for asylum based on that, but there’s still no guarantee that you’ll be approved.