What Is A Refugee? How Do I apply For Asylum?
Basically, these categories applies to people who have experienced persecution, or fear the threat of persecution, based on race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group in their own country of origin. Poverty doesn’t count, neither does general political unrest. The persecution must be individual or specific. A refugee is someone outside the United States applying for relief. If the person is already in the United States, then they would be considered a political asylum case.
Basically, these categories applies to people who have experienced persecution, or fear the threat of persecution, based on race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group in their own country of origin. Poverty doesn’t count, neither does general political unrest. The persecution must be individual or specific. A refugee is someone outside the United States applying for relief. If the person is already in the United States, then they would be considered a political asylum case.
