SHOULD YOU APPLY FOR ASYLUM?As an attorney I am often asked this question by clients and potential clients. This is a crucial question for Indonesians who want to live in the United States and may or may not fear returning to Indonesia.From 1998 to 2000, it was relatively easy to apply for and be granted asylum if you were a woman, ethnically Chinese, and perhaps Christian. The riots of 1998, the murder, raping, and beating of many Indonesians of Chinese ancestry made relatively easy.As time pas...
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