Dokument #1262645
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
For information on the status of
Salvadoreans in the United States during the Salvadorean armed
conflict, please consult Responses to Information Requests 23519.E
of 20 March 1996, USA22123.E of 31 October 1995, USA18386.E of 12
September 1994, USA11804 of 19 October 1992, and USA8796 of 14 June
1991. For additional information related to the rights of persons
claiming asylum in the United States or under a special status such
as the Temporary Protected Status mentioned in the previously-cited
Responses, please consult Responses to Information Requests
USA13748 of 1 April 1993, USA10216 of 7 February 1992, and USA8115
of 20 March 1991.
Additional information on legislation and
court cases that affected the status of Salvadoreans in the United
States can be found in the attached documents.
Further to the published information cited
above and included with this Response, an officer at the Central
America desk of the United States Department of State provided the
information that follows during a 7 March 1997 telephone
interview.
The Deferred Enforced Departure status
(DED) that replaced the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for
Salvadoreans was extended to April 1996 from its original
expiration date in January 1996. After that, the Immigration and
Naturalisation Service (INS) issued notifications to all members of
the class of aliens covered by the American Baptist Church (ABC)
court settlement (mentioned in the previous Responses cited above),
citing them for individual asylum interviews to determine their
status. The source indicated that the interviews are scheduled to
begin in April 1997, and will evaluate each case on its individual
merits and according to United States law. A statement on the
status of individual Salvadoreans in the United States, including
the possibility of individual deportation, residence rights,
acquisition of citizenship or other, cannot be inferred from these
general provisions.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum.
Reference
United States Department of State,
Washington, DC. 7 March 1997. Telephone interview with Central
America Desk officer.
Attachments
Amnesty International. March 1990.
Reasonable Fear: Human Rights and United States Refugee
Policy. New York: Amnesty International USA, pp. 8-10.
World Refugee Report. July
1993. Washington, DC: Bureau for Refugee Programs, Department of
State, pp. 207-13.
World Refugee Survey 1989—1988
in Review. 1989. Washington, DC: United States Committee for
Refugees, pp. 83, 86-87.
World Refugee Survey 1988—1987
in Review. 1988. Washington, DC: United States Committee for
Refugees, pp. 75-76.
World Refugee Survey 1986—1985
in Review. 1986. Washington, DC: United States Committee for
Refugees, pp. 5-11.
World Refugee Survey 1983—1982
in Review. 1983. Washington, DC: United States Committee for
Refugees, pp. 42-47.