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Asylum Overview: How Refugees Get to the United States

Original Publication Date: June 18, 2014
Last Updated: July 17, 2023
Estimated Read Time: < 1 minute

Handy infographic from Human Rights First shows the differences asylees encounter depending on how they arrive in the U.S., when they request asylum, how that might result in an affirmative asylum or defensive asylum case, detention, and receiving asylum or being denied and deported. 

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