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What Is the Major Difference Between Asylum and Refugee Applicants?

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What Is the Major Difference Between Asylum and Refugee Applicants?

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The major difference between asylum and refugee applicants is that those seeking refugee status apply from outside the United States. Asylum-seekers must be in the United States or applying for admission at a port of entry. Also, while there is a ceiling for refugee admissions that is determined annually by the President, there is no ceiling on the number of individuals who may be granted asylum each year, except for those who are granted asylum under the Coercive Population Control (CPC) provision of the immigration law. The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 changed the definition of refugee to include those who have suffered persecution because of CPC policies. A maximum of 1,000 aliens per fiscal year may be granted asylum or admitted as a refugee under this provision. (Because the number of individuals eligible for asylum based on CPC annually has been greater than 1,000, many individuals remain in conditional grant status until one of the 1,000 fi

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