What options available when Appeal for asylum denied and ordered to leave voluntarily?

dilash

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Hi,
My brother's appeal for asylum was denied and he received a letter to leave voluntarily country in 60 days. He came legally on visitor visa and was in US for 5 years. he has not any criminal acts or record, His case was filed in Maryland
1. What legal options he has to stay in US? .
2. Is there anything we can do to help him to stay here?
3. Can he go to CAnada and how does it should be done?

I will appreciate any inputs.
 
He can go to Canada and claim for an asylum there as long as he has some relatives there to make an exception to the Safe third country agreement between the U.S and Canada. He can take a bus ride and claim at the border if the "relatives in Canada" condition is met.
 
He can go to Canada and claim for an asylum there as long as he has some relatives there to make an exception to the Safe third country agreement between the U.S and Canada. He can take a bus ride and claim at the border if the "relatives in Canada" condition is met.
Thank you for response. He has no relatives there. Is this only way to go there?
 
Thank you for response. He has no relatives there. Is this only way to go there?

Google this term "safe third country agreement" without the quotation marks. Click on the first link which will open a CBSA (Canadian Border Services Agency) website's link. Read the info there really carefully. It's really clear about the exception to the rule for applying asylum at the canadian border post and in interior offices in Canada if you'd happen to be there already without any status.
 
Thank you fat_face. I read one exception is for document holders, but can't really understand last one, what does it really means? Is it says that if you have visa to US then you dont need visa to Canada and you are eligible to enter Canada?

Can anyone explain me it.

Document holder exceptions

Refugee claimants may qualify under this category of exceptions if they:

hold a valid Canadian visa (other than a transit visa);
hold a valid work permit;
hold a valid study permit;
hold a travel document (for permanent residents or refugees) or other valid admission document issued by Canada; or
are not required (exempt) to get a temporary resident visa to enter Canada but require a U.S.-issued visa to enter the United States.
 
Thank you fat_face. I read one exception is for document holders, but can't really understand last one, what does it really means? Is it says that if you have visa to US then you dont need visa to Canada and you are eligible to enter Canada?

Can anyone explain me it.

Document holder exceptions

Refugee claimants may qualify under this category of exceptions if they:

hold a valid Canadian visa (other than a transit visa);
hold a valid work permit;
hold a valid study permit;
hold a travel document (for permanent residents or refugees) or other valid admission document issued by Canada; or
are not required (exempt) to get a temporary resident visa to enter Canada but require a U.S.-issued visa to enter the United States.

In other words if you have a temporary resident visa..eg tourist or any other temporary "canadian visa" which also includes work permit issued to temporary workers, you can apply at the border post and or airport and this agreement won't apply to you. U.S visa won't help you in this case because you want to go to Canada and not the U.S.
 
Your brother has been asked to leave US, so he has no valid US visa. BTW, which country's passport does he hold ?
 
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