法律专家：'二孩政策' 或减少中国人在美申请庇护

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BBC Chinese, Oct 30, 2015.
http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp ... 030_china_us_asylum

, which is based on

Joseph Ax, End of China's One-Child Policy May Slow US Asylum Cases: Experts. Reuters, Oct 29, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2 ... USKCN0SN30U20151029
("In recent years, more immigrants from China have been granted U.S. asylum than from any other country. According to federal statistics, asylum was given to more than 27,000 Chinese between 2011 and 2013, representing more than one third of all cases; Egypt had the second-most with about 7,300")

Note:
(a) Statistics. Refugee Council USA ("a coalition of US non-governmental organizations focused on refugee protection"), undated.
www.rcusa.org/statistics

collects statistics from UNHCR and US Department of Homeland Security.

For 2013 US statistics, see Daniel C Martin and James E Yankay, Refugees and Asylees: 2013. Department of Homeland Security, May 2014,
http://www.rcusa.org/uploads/pdf ... e%20Flow%202013.pdf

Quote:

"DEFINING 'REFUGEE' AND 'ASYLUM' STATUS * * *  An applicant for refugee status is outside the United States, while an applicant seeking asylum status is in the United States or at a US port of entry." page 1

[Table 3 in page 3 shows China is not in top ten as to refugee arrivals to US ("arrival" or "admission" occurs only when US grants refugee visa).]

Table 6 of page 6 shows (successful) asylees, where the text (at page 6) stated, "In 2013, the leading countries of nationality of persons granted either affirmative or defensive asylum were China (34 percent [number: 8,604 -- compared with total: 25.199), Egypt (14 percent), Ethiopia (3.5 percent), Nepal (3.4 percent), and Syria (3.2 percent) (see Table 6)."  Earlier at page 4: "Asylum may be obtained in one of three ways: affirmatively through a USCIS asylum officer, defensively in removal proceedings before an immigration judge of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) of the Department of Justice, or an individual may derive asylum status as the spouse or child of an asylee."

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is within US Department of Homeland Security.