1.   The Convention set down rules for deciding which country should deal with an asylum request.

2.   Asylum requests can take several months or years, he said.

3.   A federal grand jury in Miami last month charged a Krome guard with raping a transsexual detainee who was being held while her asylum request was being considered.

4.   After that meeting, late Tuesday afternoon, Riera went to see a Mexican national security official, Jose Luis Baez, to pursue his asylum request.

5.   But break-ins and asylum requests are likely to continue.

6.   But even if the ruling, which the judge said he would announce later, goes against the asylum request, Omar will have more options.

7.   But then the asylum requests came in and another complication developed.

8.   Canada, on the other hand, grants most asylum requests from Tibetans.

9.   Chief Constable John Burrow of the Essex County police department, which handled negotiations with the hijackers, said the hijackers had indicated they would file asylum requests.

10.   Giving Juan Miguel such status would have allowed the father to withdraw the asylum request and immediately return to Cuba.