| During 1992-2002, an estimated 380,000 to 536,000 persons entered the United States annually as immigrants, refugees, or asylees. |
| The Jamestown Foundation Jamestown is a unique organization founded in the early eighties to assist asylees and defectors from the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries. |
| Immigrants, refugees, and asylees constitute only a fraction of foreign-born persons who enter the United States each year. |
| Smugglers commonly fool would-be asylees, taking their money and disappearing or simply failing to help them cross Turkey's borders. |
| A question that needs to be addressed by many other states and international organizations concerns the status of long-term refugees and asylees. |
| The Dublin Convention set up an EU-wide data base of asylees and refugees and clarified responsibility for processing asylum seekers who had applied to several EU countries. |
