51.   Larosiliere has appealed to the Board of Immigration to scrap the deportation order and grant Constant refugee status.

52.   Legal immigration processing can take two years or more for checking personal qualifications, meeting skills quotas or investigating refugee status.

53.   Many of the illegal migrants have applied for refugee status in Canada.

54.   Members of the group have not been awarded refugee status and are effectively stateless - Vietnam and Taiwan refuse to take them and Hong Kong denies them local resettlement.

55.   Most refugees want to become American citizens, but they cannot apply until they have had refugee status for four years and nine months.

56.   Nor did she qualify for refugee status, because she did not live in a country in which her life was at risk.

57.   Of late, several have asked for refugee status, saying they feared political retaliation if they were sent home.

58.   Omar said he has been refused refugee status by the United Nations, so he lives illegally in Pakistan.

59.   Only those who applied for refugee status in Haiti at the U.S. Embassy and two consulates would be considered.

60.   Politics was what had led to all the destruction, the separations and their refugee status.