1.   She handled her first Afghan asylum case that year, after a Falls Church immigration consultant referred a client to her.

2.   Still, a spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees made it clear that his group considered it too early to send Afghan asylum seekers home.

3.   Afghan asylum seekers are among the thousands of people from Asia, the Middle East and eastern Europe who sneak into Greece each year.

4.   Australia will soon begin sending home Afghan asylum seekers, Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said Monday.

5.   Earlier this year, hundreds of Afghan asylum seekers staged a two-week hunger strike at Woomera.

6.   Hundreds of mostly Afghan asylum seekers are on hunger strike at Woomera.

7.   In February this year the Australian government said it was considering a plan to provide financial assistance for Afghan asylum seekers who would return home voluntarily.

8.   Many of the Afghan asylum seekers from the Tampa have been settling into a new camp on Nauru where their applications for entry to Australia will be processed.

9.   Meanwhile, Prime Minister John Howard announced that Australia will offer Afghan asylum seekers money to help them resettle if they agree to return to their homeland.

10.   The government Monday suspended processing applications from Afghan asylum seekers as church leaders used Christmas messages to condemn its refugee policies.