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США : Беженцы

Recently several persons pointed my attention to SweetDream website. That is a company who promises some kind of success in asylum application for some kind of money.

I personally do not trust them. First, look at www.state.gov/www/global/prm/rpt_9804_refugee_adm.html there are rules for refugee and asylee policy (the rules are pretty much the same).

The idea is the following. You need to belong to a group of people, who are persecuted.

1. You need to prove credible fear of persecution to yourself
2. You need to prove the whole group is persecuted.
3. You need to prove you belong to the group.

The document says there are 5 priorities, and only 2 of them are accepted from former Soviet Union countries.

That is what you need to be classified under priority I. To be classified under priority II, you need to be a Jew, or an Evangelical Christian, or Ukrainian Orthodox. For priority II, p.2 of those 3 issues is taken for granted. P.3 is what you need to prove. P.1 is substituted by a simplier one -- "fear of persecution" instead of "credible fear of persecution".

If you are neither a Jew, not a Evangelical Christian, nor Ukrainian Orthodox, you can go only under priority I.

What this company is offering you is probably a legend, full of lie. Something like you personally were tortured in FSB because of your political belief (like you belong to a party of supporters of Hriushin, who is expected to be the successor of Stepashkin, and that is why ALL supporters of Hriushin are tortured at FSB).

So in this case they prove for you that:

1. You were tortured.
2. All supporters of Hriushin are tortured.
3. You are a supporter of Hriushin.

In theory this is a workable schema, except the fact that that is all a lie. Once you lied, if that is discovered later, no matter how late, you will be deported from US. It can happen in 1 year or in 70 years, the result will be the same - deportation. And all those years you will live under "fear of persecution" in the US, even if they really make something for you.

On the contray, I think they do not really do anything real. The asylum statistics for 1998 for all countries is represented at www.visalaw.com/99apr/31apr99.html.

Looking at figures for Russia, you can see, that among 923 cases received in 1998 and 1041 pending in line by the beginning of 1998, 183 were granted, 177 were denied, 309 were not even initially accepted, and the rest 254 were put into the line of pending cases at the end of the year, so the line became 1295 long.

Those figures include both priorities I and II, and I am sure more than 95% of those are priority II (Jews, Evangelical Christians, and Ukrainian Orthodox persons).

So for those who are interested in my opinion about SweetDream, I think they are "juliki".

There are a number of ways to immigrate to US, and most of them look promising to me, but not this one.

http://immigration.andrewz.org/us/us_refugees/us_refugees_asylee.html * Контактные адреса * Авторские права * 07.05.2007