Migrant Chaos Mounts While Divided Europe Stumbles for Response

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13. I know of what I speak over 30 years

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acquaintance with my old friend, Form I-589, and working internationally in a related field as a US agency contractor.

Once a refugee claimant reaches your territorial water or territory and claims asylum, all of the 150 or so state signatories to the UN Protocols on the Status of Refugees have a duty under international law to protect them and process them for asylee status. The US along with some countries such as Sweden, do their own refugee processing abroad. The US has resettled a scant 1,000 or so Syrians, mostly women with small children, an extraordinarily small number of the 4 million or so displaced outside the country. The main reason for this is our security screening system takes years to complete.

There is a third group of countries that accept refugees for resettlement who have had their status determined by UNHCR. A fourth group of states are immediate receiving countries who coordinate temporary shelter with UNHCR and Volags.

Many countries, though signatories to the treaty, do not presently meet international norms for aid and protection to refugees, and that includes most of the EU.

Regions with significant populations
(Numbers do not include foreign citizens who left Syria)
Turkey 2,138,999 estimated (April 2015)[2]

1,938,999 registered (April 2015)[2]
Lebanon 1,196,560 estimated (April 2015)[3]

1,185,241 registered (April 2015)[3]
Jordan 628,427 estimated (April 2015)[4]

628,427 registered (April 2015)[4]
Iraq 247,861 estimated (March 2015)[5]

247,861 registered (March 2015)[5]
Egypt 133,862 estimated (April 2015)[6]

133,862 registered (April 2015)[6] inspirit
Germany 105,000 estimated (March 2015)[7]
Greece 88,204 (2015 only)[8]
Algeria 25,000 estimated (Aug 2012)

10,000 "asylum seekers"[9] (Jan 2013)
Sweden At least 40,000 (2015) [10][11][12][13]
Austria At least 18,000 (2015)[11][14]
United Kingdom 5,102 (2015)[15]
Armenia 3,248 applied for visas (July 2012)

16,000 (Jan 2014) [16]
Bahrain 5,000 estimated (September 2012)[17]
Libya 4,716 estimated (February 2013)[18]
Italy 4,600 estimated (Sep 2013)[19]
Bulgaria More than 4,500[20] (Sep 2013)

As many as 10,000 expected by the end of 2013[21]
Canada 2,374 (August 2015)[22]
Brazil 1,740 (January 2015)[23]
Romania 1,300 (July 2014)[24]
Argentina 300+ families (Aug 2013)[25]
Russia >1,000 (Feb 2014)[26]
Gaza Strip 1,000 (Dec 2013)[27]
France 500 estimated (October 2013)[28]
Macedonia 255[29]
Poland >150 (July 2015)[30]
Colombia <100 (September 2014)[31]
Uruguay <100 (October 2014)[32]
United States <100 (December 2013)[33]
Mexico <30 (October 2014)
Language: Arabic, Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic
Religion: Sunni Islam, Christianity, Shia Islam

Refugees of the Syrian Civil War, widely referred as the Syrian refugees,[34] are Syrian nationals, who have fled Syria with the escalation of the Syrian Civil War.[35] To escape the violence, more than four million Syrian refugees have fled the country to neighboring Turkey,[36][37] Lebanon, Jordan,[38] and Iraq,[39] while thousands also ended up in more distant countries of the Caucasus, the Persian Gulf, North Africa and Europe. As of February 2015, Turkey has become the world's biggest refugee hosting country with 2.1 million Syrian refugees and had spent more than US$6 billion on direct assistance to refugees.[40][41]