Tamerlan, the elder brother, arrived in 2006 and was granted Permanent Resident status, while Dzhokhar, who arrived on a tourist visa in 2002, was given asylumstatus as a Chechen refugee from Dagestan, and eventually achieved U.S. citizenship on 11 September 2012.
They know that the British courts have determined that ethnic Albanians from Kosovo are the only substantial group of asylum-seekers in Britain eligible for refugeestatus by virtue of their ethnicity and where they come from rather than because of any individual experience of torture or repression.