YEREVAN, JULY 3. ARMINFO. The US Immigration and Naturalization Service reports that in 2002 a total of 89.7 thousand people applied for the refugee status in the USA.
The “Washinngton ProFile” web-site of the US Department of State reports that the most refugees were from Ukraine and Russia 3,959 and 1,748 applications respectively. Of them, the refugee status has been given to 1,618 and 731 applicants respectively. As regards Armenia, 265 Armenian citizens applied for the refugee status in the USA in 2002, 204 of them received the refugee status and 19 were denied it, the rest applications are under consideration.
Also, a total of 58.4 thousand people applied for a political asylum in the USA. 18,900 applications were satisfied, and 1,600 rejected. The other applications failed to be considered. Most of the applicants for a political asylum in the USA were from Armenia – 1,389 application (959 were satisfied and 53 rejected). the other applications are under consideration.
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