One of the most significant events in the modern history of asylum law in the United States
Today may will be one of the most significant in the modern history of asylum law in the United States. Due to changes in the immigration and nationality act in 1996, asylum-seekers have been frustrated by the "one-year deadline" to making a claim for asylum in immigration court. If one does not file within the one-year deadline, a person seeking the protection of US asylum law loses the right to make an asylum claim (and, if granted, the right to become a permanent resident
