Immigration Law
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 Professor Anna Williams Shavers

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Refugee Law

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Immigration Law

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Human Rights and Refugees

Convention relating to the Status of Refugees

Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees of 31 January 1967

Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status

Immigration Law sites -- A listing of various domestic and international sites

Immigration and Naturalization Service

Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) Library- including BIA precedent decisions

Visa Bulletin-- A publication of the State Department advising on current visa availability; updated monthly

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices-U.S. Department of State

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees --

Center for International and European Law on Immigration and Asylum

The Centre for Refugee Studies --Based in Toronto

The European Convention on Human Rights -- echr.co.uk/

The University of Michigan Law School Refugee Caselaw Site

Boston Mass. Refugee Law Center

UNHCR & Refugees

UN Human Rights Home Page

Refugee Law Center-http://www.refugeelawcenter.org/index.htm


Amnesty International on the Web-http://www.amnesty.org/


Human Rights Watch-http://www.hrw.org/


African Human Rights Resource Center-http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/ --(Jt. project of Makerere University Human Rights and Peace Center and the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center.


Directory of Human Rights Resources on Web


INA
* Definition of "refugee" (INA sec. 101(a)(42))
* "Asylum" (INA sec. 208)
* INS Asylum Regulations (8 C.F.R., part 208)
* Special preliminary "credible fear" determination for certain illegally arrivinf migrants (INA sec. 235(b)(1)(B))
* Restriction on removal to a country where alien's life or freedom would be threatened (INA sec. 241(b)(3))
* Temporary Protected Status (INA sec. 244)

 

 

 

 

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