From cpitts@mail.ewu.edu Fri Feb 12 08:48:07 1999 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.2+UW99.01/8.9.2+UW99.01) with ESMTP id IAA15576 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 08:48:07 -0800 Received: from owl.ewu.edu (owl.ewu.edu [146.187.128.22]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id IAA18896 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 08:48:06 -0800 Received: from mail.ewu.edu ([146.187.13.233]) by mail.ewu.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #23191) with ESMTP id <01J7NF7IOX5S95XFLU@mail.ewu.edu> for residency@u.washington.edu; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 08:48:19 PST Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 08:40:26 -0800 From: Carol Pitts Subject: Re: asylee,refugee,political asylum To: residency@u.washington.edu Message-id: <36C45979.40F948F3@mail.ewu.edu> X-Envelope-to: residency@u.washington.edu MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: Hi Virjean! Since I'm a visual learner, would you, could you, do me a flow chart? Just kidding. Thanks. Carol Virjean Edwards wrote: > 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 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .