21.   The Immigration and Naturalization Service considers Tibetans stateless, but it has opposed most asylum requests from those who lived for most of their lives in Nepal or India.

22.   The permits will not be renewed until asylum requests are filed.

23.   The officer hearing her asylum request decides her answer is incorrect and denies her application.

24.   While Ms. Abankwah is free, she must still await a final decision on her asylum request by the Board of Immigration Appeals.

25.   Police barred journalists from entering the Interior Ministry building in Madrid where asylum requests are made, and lowered window shutters so camera crews could not film proceedings inside.

26.   Panama had struggled with the asylum request, delaying a decision earlier this month.

27.   Police barred journalists from entering the Interior Ministry building where asylum requests are made, and lowered window shutters so camera crews could not film proceedings inside.

28.   A Foreign Ministry spokesman, Lorenzo Galanti, said he could not comment on the asylum request.

29.   A record number of asylum requests was made in Switzerland in October as a result of the crisis in Kosovo, authorities said Thursday.

30.   A series of asylum requests at Western embassies and U.N. offices in Beijing has caused diplomatic dilemmas for China.