"Are you telling us that your asylum request was just a tactic?"

The total number of asylum requests for the whole of 1991 was 256,000.

He later dropped the asylum request and agreed to leave the country within 60 days - by Aug. 23.

The immigration service grants only about 20 percent of asylum requests.

Her asylum request has been denied and is being appealed.

A Vatican spokesman said the church saw political grounds in the asylum request.

The asylum request was considered and rejected in closed proceedings.

As a result, the judge delayed a decision on his asylum request.

In 1991, 12.6 per cent of political asylum requests were granted.

He lived in Hamburg until 1997, when the judge refused his asylum request.