Are you looking for information on a humanitarian green card, obtaining a green card through refugee or asylee status? We can help. For a detailed explanation of asylee processing delays, learn about the differences between INA 209 and 245 procedures. This guide to obtaining a green card through refugee or asylee status is part of our guide to green cards. If you need more information, please keep on reading. If you know that you could use some help now, please contact us.
The United States has a history of responding to the needs of the world’s oppressed peoples. For a representative example of the United States responding to such oppression, see here. In order for the United States to help them, victims of oppression show that oppressors persecuted them or that they fear of future persecution due to some protected ground. A protected ground is generally some immutable characteristic that a person cannot change.
Humanitarian Response to Oppression
The Green Card Application Process in United States recognizes persecution due to race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. It does so through two routes based on where the victim of oppression lives.
Immigration Law Guide
A refugee is someone who lives outside of the United States for whom the United States has a special humanitarian concern. A refugee shows persecution as defined above. As an additional requirement for refugee status, the refugee must have not settled in another country permanently after leaving his or her home country.
Refugees
Regardless of the persecution that a refugee experiences, for the United States to admit them in that status he or she must still be admissible, meet US admission requirements.
A detailed description of the refugee application process is beyond the scope of this article. But, once admitted to the United States as a refugee, the refugee becomes eligible for a green card. We cover the refugee green card process in our guide limited to that topic.
Asylees
An asylee is someone who is already present in the United States or someone who presents themselves at a port of entry to the United States. The asylee is unable or unwilling to return to his or her country of nationality or seek the protection of that country because of past persecution or fear of future persecution. As with the refugee, the asylee must have suffered persecution for one of the protected grounds.
Like refugee status, a detailed description of the asylee process is beyond the scope of this article. But, once the United States admits someone to the United States as an asylee, that person becomes eligible for a green card. We cover the asylee green card in an article limited to discussing that process.
How We Can Help
Do you believe that you are eligible for a green card through the refugee or asylee process? Please review the individual Us Green Card Process guides for the specific route that interests you. It doesn’t matter which of these humanitarian options apply to you, we can help you.
