United States of America (USA): Information on whether a person who was granted refugee status but has not applied for landed immigrant status, and who has left the USA to come to Canada where he/she has no status, can return to the USA and maintain his/her refugee status
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 November 1997 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | USA28281.E |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, United States of America (USA): Information on whether a person who was granted refugee status but has not applied for landed immigrant status, and who has left the USA to come to Canada where he/she has no status, can return to the USA and maintain his/her refugee status, 1 November 1997, USA28281.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6abec44.html [accessed 1 June 2023] |
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During a 20 November 1997 telephone interview, an Immigration attaché at the Embassy of the United States of America in Ottawa, explained that by leaving the USA before obtaining his or her landed immigrant status, a person who has been granted refugee status in the USA loses automatically that status. The Immigration attaché added that the overall refugee determination process must be followed if that person wants to recover refugee status in the USA.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.
Reference
Embassy of the United States of America, Ottawa. 20 November 1997. Telephone interview with an Immigration attaché.
