GastricallyStretched t1_iw9klt8 wrote
Reply to comment by rakeruk in ‘An amazing feeling’: asylum seeker stuck in hotel thanks Observer readers for sending books | Ali, a Kurd who fled Iran, may also be offered a university place after he told of the tedium of 500 days in limbo by AsslessBaboon
>He could have claimed asylum in any one of them.
He could have but he chose not to. You can't force anyone to apply for asylum, and there's no obligation to seek asylum in the "first safe country". The UN Refugee Convention makes no such requirement.
> Let's not paint them as asylum seekers.
He applied for asylum, and so he is by definition an asylum seeker until a decision is made about his application.
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