Where are you going to seek asylum?
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Choose
your preferred country of asylum on the basis of facts, not on rumours
or prejudcies.
Many refugees rely on rumours, prejudices or publicity
when they chose a certain country as asylum country. However,
the chances to become a recognised refugee or to get another
form of protection from forcible return differ enormously even
between asylum countries and even from area to area within
countries (especially the United States). This is rarely taken
into account before or during the flight. But once you have
applied in a certain asylum country, it is often impossible
to move to another one and to get recognised there (see point
3 below); you risk even to lose all rights in the first country
of asylum if you do so.
Unfortunately, (future) refugees frequently just follow the example
of people they know. But these people do not always tell the truth about
their status: Sometimes they are just illegally in a certain country
though they pretend to be there legally. People often lie when their
families have financed the flight and they thus feel under pressure of
success. This is understandable and human. But it risks luring you.
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