WINNING asylum is like a game of roulette, but the chips will be in your favour if you have legal representation and a judge who is a woman or has not worked in the immigration bureaucracy, a study of US asylum decisions has found.In other words, neither judge has a clue. So your safety and security is a lottery.
Beyond the initial issue of the asylum seeker's credibility, these factors have a huge impact on whether a person will be granted asylum. An Australian law specialist said a study of asylum decisions in Australia would probably yield similar biases.
Fate of asylum seekers may depend on a judge's gender
August 5, 2008
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