HOW TO APPLY FOR ASYLUM - The Florence Project

make you inadmissible or deportable to the United States you may still be eligible if you meet
additional requirements); and
4. You would suffer extreme hardship if you were removed from the U.S. or your spouse, parent or
children who are lawful permanent residents or U.S. citizens would suffer such hardship if you were
removed from the U.S.
If you meet the above requirements but have criminal convictions, you should still bring up NACARA with the
judge to see if you are eligible. Also, if you are not sure whether you applied for asylum by the deadline or
whether you are an ABC class member, you should ask the judge if you qualify to apply to stay in the United
States under NACARA.
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For El Salvadorans the requirements are:
A. You are from El Salvador;
1. You came to the United States on or before September 19, 1990; and
2. You registered for ABC class benefits on or before October 31, 1991 (Note: ABC registrants are not
eligible if they were apprehended upon entry after Dec. 19, 1990); or you registered for temporary
protected status (“TPS”) on or before October 31, 1991; or
2. You applied for asylum on or before April 1, 1990;
AND
B. You establish:
1. You have been physically in the U.S. continuously for at least seven years; and
2. You have good moral character (this means you have not been convicted of certain crimes or spent 6
months or more in jail); and
3. You have not been convicted of an aggravated felony as defined by section 101(a)(43) of the INA (if
you have certain other crimes or immigration offenses that make you inadmissible or deportable to
the United States, you may still be eligible if you meet additional requirements); and
4. You would suffer extreme hardship if you were removed from the U.S. or your spouse or children
who are lawful permanent residents or U.S. citizens would suffer such hardship if you were removed
from the U.S.
If you meet the above requirements but have criminal convictions, you should still bring up NACARA with
the judge to see if you are eligible. If you are not sure whether you applied for asylum by the deadline, or
whether you are an ABC class member or have TPS status, you should ask the judge if you qualify to apply to
stay in the United States under NACARA.
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For Eastern Europeans:
A. You are a national of the Soviet Union, Russia, any Republic of the former Soviet Union, Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Albania, East Germany,
Yugoslavia or any state of the former Yugoslavia; and
1. You entered the United States on or before December 31, 1990;
2. You applied for asylum on or before December 31, 1991;
AND
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