From vedwards@u.washington.edu Thu Feb 11 15:28:47 1999 Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (root@jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.2+UW99.01/8.9.2+UW99.01) with ESMTP id PAA32248 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:28:47 -0800 Received: from homer12.u.washington.edu (vedwards@homer12.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.13]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.9.2+UW99.01/8.9.2+UW99.01) with ESMTP id PAA16894 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:28:46 -0800 Received: from localhost (vedwards@localhost) by homer12.u.washington.edu (8.9.2+UW99.01/8.9.2+UW99.01) with ESMTP id PAA98866 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:28:44 -0800 Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:28:44 -0800 (PST) From: Virjean Edwards To: residency@u.washington.edu Subject: asylee,refugee,political asylum Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi All I finally got in touch with Brent Shore and I think I understand what he said. How's that for confidence! Refugee: These people are granted refugee status outside the USA, they get a residency waiver for tuition purposes in their first year. They are eligible to apply for resident alien status after living in the US for one year, but there are only 10,000 spots available per year for this status so many have to wait longer. They can apply for residency-for-tuition purposes after the first year--permanent residence card not required as long as they the have the approved refugee status. Asylee: These people are granted refugee status in the US! Their status is the same as the refugee, the difference is that the refugee is approved outside the US and the asylee gets approval while living in the US. He considers asylees the same as refugess once they are approved for asylum. No green card is required for them to get residency for tuition purposes, provided they have approved asylum and they have lived here the 12 months, etc.. Apparently, if someone says that s/he was initially a refugee and s/he now has a Green Card, you can tell on the back of the card (not sure which corner)if the person was previously a refugee because'RE' will be printed there. Or if s/he was granted asylum, 'AS' will be printed on the back. I had a student say that if he had a Green Card and his Port of Entry was Washington, then he was automatically a resident. Nix that one! Brent said they do the time like everyone else. I hope this helps! Have a sunny long weekend! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Virjean H. Edwards University of Washington Assistant Registrar Office of the Registrar Residency Officer 264 Schmitz Hall, Box 355850 (206)543-3290 Seattle WA 98195-5850 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .