1.   They claim that some asylum applications are not even recorded, because the foreigner concerned is deported before seeing a magistrate.

2.   We should be supporting the right to seek independent legal advice in support of an asylum application.

3.   The processing of asylum applications was to be accelerated.

4.   And we have found no pre-existing requirement that a minor, in submitting an asylum application, must act through the representative selected by the INS.

5.   As for Bayati, the Iraqi asylum seeker, his life is on hold while he waits for the immigration authorities to process his asylum application.

6.   Asylum applications can be tied up for years in the complicated appeals process.

7.   Asylum applications have been increasing throughout Europe.

8.   But in January he was told to wait, then he was told to send in a copy of his asylum application.

9.   Coffey conceded that asylum applications are complex, and he asserted that most of the applications are made by people who do not completely understand them.