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After his application was rejected, he went to Germany and applied for asylum under the name Ramzi Omar, claiming to be a Sudanese citizen seeking asylum.
This is the latest in a series of incidents--a North Korean submarine crew infiltrating the South, North Korea's top ideologist seeking asylum in South Korea's Beijing embassy--that have escalated tensions between the two countries.
"There's a greater level of interest in immigration, asylum and international human rights work," Lardent says.
The best thing about this play, apparently, is Irish actor Donal McCann ( The Dead , Stealing Beauty ). McCann plays a 70-year-old ex-superintendent of the British-run Dublin police force who is now committed to an insane asylum and brooding over his past.
15 From before the 1983 amendment until 1986, the categories of eligible aliens included: (1) an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence; (2) an alien who was either married to a United States citizen or was a parent or an unmarried child under the age of twenty-one years of such a citizen and who had filed an application for adjustment of status under the INA; (3) an alien who was lawfully present in the United States as a refugee or who had been granted asylum by the Attorney General; (4) an alien who was lawfully present in the United States as a result of the Attorney General's withholding of deportation; and (5) an alien lawfully present in the United States as a result of being granted conditional entry.