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“If you apply for asylum and you get granted that status, that would be more permanent status in the U.S. but I also think it’s generally better to have more than one option,” said Nina Salazar, staff attorney at the Latin American Association. “I would really encourage immigrants who are in the process of the asylum application or thinking of applying for asylum to also submit their TPS applications as well.”
Both Salazar and Urbina indicated that approval rates for TPS are higher than those for asylum. That’s especially true for asylum cases that fall under the jurisdiction of Georgia’s immigration courts, which have some of the highest denial rates in the nation, according to data compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a nonpartisan research organization at Syracuse University. In the five-year period from 2015 to 2020, immigration courtrooms in Atlanta registered an average denial rate of 95.6%, compared to 50.1% in a city like Boston.
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