Refugees

USCIS Modifies Asylum Interview Scheduling

USCIS, Jan. 31, 2018 - "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that the agency will schedule asylum interviews for recent applications ahead of older filings, in an attempt to stem the growth of the agency’s asylum backlog. USCIS is responsible for overseeing the nation’s legal immigration system, which includes adjudicating asylum claims. The agency currently faces a crisis-level backlog of 311,000 pending asylum cases as of Jan. 21, 2018, making the asylum system increasingly vulnerable to fraud and abuse. This backlog has grown by more than 1750 percent over the last…Read More Breaking News

The Refugee crisis is taking a really bad turn

According to the United Nation Refugee Center, every one minute 24 people are being displaced as refugees from their homes due to persecution and war.  According to the same report, it seems that almost 65 million individuals are affected. A group as big as the population of France.  The anti-immigration groups always blame refugees, yet the same group are the first one to cheer for war in these war-torn countries. It is time for the world to stop and think.  The crisis is not only affecting the mentioned countries but the entire world.Read More Breaking News

Asylum through Climate Change – Global Immigration Due to Climate.

  • Posted on March 21, 2016
  • /Under Asylum
The video by attorney Shah Peerally tries to covers issues related to climate change migration, immigration and climate change, global warming effect and migration, migration from Syria, asylum based on climate change and a proposal that the law should be changed to accommodate Asylum seekers based on climate change. Climate change is a new driver of human migration that many people expect will dwarf all others in its impact. But some of the most commonly repeated predictions of the numbers of people who will be displaced by climate change are not informed by an understanding…Read More Breaking News

Punishing the persecuted Syrian Refugees for the action of the Persecutors!

November 19 2015 - In fear of the Paris attack, Xenophobia has taken over the House of Representatives which are equating the innocent Syrian Refugees with that of their persecutors. The fear is not new. As said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said "We face a choice that will echo through history," He reminded lawmakers that the U.S. turned away Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939. "We must not let ourselves be guided by irrational fear." It seems that the Muslims are now the Jews of 1939. This is a sad day for…Read More Breaking News