Even though he had been fingerprinted during his refugee application, there was apparently no cross check with the police, immigration or intelligence agencies.

It was the first of similar refugee applications.

It was a major change in procedure, marking one of the few times that Washington had not automatically approved refugee applications from Soviet Jews.

The backlog of refugee applications, currently 85,000, has been increasing by 20,000 to 30,000 a year.

They were among 29 who have been held in the center pending investigation and processing of their refugee applications.

The increase in Armenian refugee applications began before those disturbances.

An official from the immigration service had been scheduled to return to process refugee applications in early January.

Many are waiting for the United States to rule on their refugee applications; some have already been turned down.

No, it is not, because refugee applications have fallen recently.

She works in a government agency that deals with refugee applications.