1.   Finger-printing will be introduced for asylum applicants, to prevent multiple applications and fraudulent benefit claims.

2.   Neo-Nazi attacks on the hostels of asylum applicants continued.

3.   And asylum applicants are often held not in INS detention centers but in state and local prisons, where they are mixed in with hardened criminals.

4.   Back in New York, he worked with Physicians for Human Rights and often did medical evaluations for asylum applicants.

5.   After a two-hour wait, an officer told him that asylum applicants need not show up in person.

6.   But in an earlier ruling, the judges in this case indicated that immigration laws do not set a minimum age for an asylum applicant.

7.   But she had an advantage that many asylum applicants do not.

8.   He had been obligated to consider factors like the troubled domestic situation in Afghanistan, he said, as well as the individual circumstances of each asylum applicant.

9.   He said that because of the pledge to grant interviews to all asylum applicants, he doubted that the processing would be speeded.

10.   It will have devastating effects on asylum applicants like Fauziya Kassindja, the young woman who fled from Togo to escape genital mutilation.