Asylee status

Legal Frameworks for the Protection of Forced Migrants The Legal Institution of Asylum Refugee Status and Asylee Status... 

Differences and Similarities between Refugee Status and Asylee Status... 

Refugee status can only be enjoyed by persons who find themselves outside the territory of their country of nationahty, or of former habitual residence, in the case of stateless persorrs. This is not the case of asylee status, since diplomatic asylum may be enjoyed in the diplomatic premises of the asylee-receiving state located in the territory of his or her country of nationahty ... 

To be granted refugee status, the person concerned needs to show a well-founded fear of persecution. This persecution may not necessarily have materialized by the time the refugee claim is lodged. Asylee status, on the other hand, is premissed upon an actual persecution and thus a sense of urgenc/ ... 

The enjoyment of refugee status may be supervised by UNHCR, which is the main component of the irrstitutional pillar of the contemporary international global refugee protection regime. The enjoyment of asylee status, entire other hand, does not benefit from the supervision of an international institutional, the role of the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights being rather limited ... 

Such is the case of Peru s Asylum Law 27,840 of 12 Oct. 2002, which refers only to asylee status. 

For instance. Articles 28 and 29 of Brazil s 1980 Foreigners Act partially defines the legal status of asylees (asilados). 

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