After more than a decade of filing applications, they cannot gain asylum anywhere else.

If they gained asylum, they were released into the community.

His hope is to gain political asylum in the United States.

The Romeros said they would remain and try to gain political asylum or some other legal status.

They stormed foreign embassies by the thousands to gain asylum.

The men said they had taken action in a desperate effort to gain asylum in Britain.

But they explained today that when the Afghans began to realize how difficult it might be to gain asylum here, many more decided to leave.

Many succeeded in gaining political asylum, but unfortunately not everyone.

He traveled to Sweden and gained asylum there in 1993.

He tried to gain asylum from Venezualea, but they said no.