In the year to October 1st 1998, just 615 Cubans reached Florida to seek asylum.
He has dismissed reports that the family would seek asylum in the West because of threats by the Pakistani Taliban.
Two women from Pakistan who said they were victims of threat and abuse have won the right to seek asylum in Britain.
After falling out with Ukrainian president, Leonid Kuchma, in 1999, Pavlo Lazarenko fled to the United States to avoid justice and seek asylum.
The survivors had said they were Muslims from a border village between Burma and Bangladesh, and that they had intended to seek asylum in Indonesia or Australia, Mr Jayakody added.
Lord Hoffman said the women were entitled to seek asylum under the 1951 Geneva convention because the evidence was that the state would not assist them because they were women.
"The majority of Neruda's friends were made prisoners or had to hide or seek political asylum in other countries, " it says.
In a recent development, Ecuadorian legislator Gloria Gallardo who fled to Colombia this week to seek political asylum returned to Ecuador Friday.
The following year, Sharif has said, the offer was changed: either Fadl could seek political asylum or Egyptian authorities would come and get him.
Second, the REAL ID Act would make it more difficult for terrorists to seek and obtain asylum in the United States.
Every winter thousands pay to board rickety smugglers' boats for Thailand, whence a bus can take them to Malaysia, to seek work or asylum.
But Irish Justice Minister Michael McDowell, whose country holds the rotating EU president, said members states would seek a common approach to asylum seekers.
Tandridge council wants to find descendants of key historical figures - including the asylum's first matron - to seek permission to use their names.
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