Feds Stop Asylum App Denials Over Blank, Inapplicable Fields

By Alyssa Aquino (April 1, 2021, 7:53 PM EDT) -- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Thursday that applications for asylum and other forms of relief will no longer be automatically rejected over inapplicable fields that are intentionally left blank, such as the "middle name" field....

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