Title	Brief of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the case East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, et al., v. William P. Barr ("East Bay Sanctuary (II)")
Publisher	UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Publication Date	15 October 2019
Country	United States of America
Topics	Asylum policy | Non-refoulement | Right to seek asylum | Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness | Safe third country
Citation / Document Symbol	Case No. 3:19-CV-04073
Related Document(s)	East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, et al., v. William P. Barr ("East Bay Sanctuary (II)")
Cite as	UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Brief of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the case East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, et al., v. William P. Barr ("East Bay Sanctuary (II)"), 15 October 2019, Case No. 3:19-CV-04073, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/5dcc03354.html [accessed 24 May 2023]
Comments	UNHCR submits this brief out of concern that the Interim Final Rule at issue in this case, Asylum Eligibility and Procedural Modifications (“IFR”), 84 Fed. Reg. 33,829 (July 16, 2019), significantly restricts access to asylum in a way that is at variance with two international law protections: the right to seek asylum and the principle of non-refoulement. UNHCR has a strong interest in ensuring that United States asylum policy remains consistent with the international treaty obligations that the United States helped to create, and respectfully offers its guidance on those obligations.