Which European country is most likely to offer an American citizen asylum? [closed]
Which European country is most likely to offer an American citizen asylum?
If a hypothetical American were fleeing an abusive domestic relationship with someone extremely powerful and hard to challenge or hold to account within the US system, and we're liable to be denied resolution and future safety by any of the ostensibly responsible US institutions, which country in Europe would he have the highest chance of being granted recognition of his situation and real refuge by?
Please tell if this is wrong or not, but my intuitive sesne is that close allies would not be inclined to grant us citizens refuge because it sort of insults the original country. Which, in case accurate, rules out... UK? France? maybe Germany? Estonia? Poland? How is that list? Of course this is merely extrapolating from the overall diplomatic relationship but it would be far more useful to either speculate from countries' direct laws and policies regarding granting refuge to various Nationals, or better yet, to cite real historical empirical precedents if they exist.
Informative answers greatly appreciated!
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From your list, Germany would certainly come before France as a close US ally, yet it is very by-the-book and would still process such an application. Politics might certainly play a role at the end of the day but there is for example a famous recent case of a US citizen seeking refugee status there. Every decision until now has been negative but he is still going through the appeal process, it's not like the interior ministry would put him back in a plane or summarily deny the application merely because he is a US citizen. I know there have been a bunch of cases like that in the UK and Sweden too but I don't recall anyone being successful in recent years.
Generally speaking, the rules do not discriminate between nationalities at all, each claim has to be judged on the merits. The closest you will find to a nationality-of-origin standard is the notion of a “safe country of origin” (this exists in German law for example) but these lists are typically very short and limited to countries in the Balkan that have seen trouble in the past. So you won't find any clear-cut rule about US citizens. And there are so few cases that statistics are essentially meaningless.
Beyond that, Australian example notwithstanding, the situation you described does not seem to match the international definition of a refugee very well and it would therefore seem extremely unlikely to see such a claim accepted.
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Answer 2
Seems I am wrong
See what was written in the comments by @user568458:
You'd be surprised, there are a small number of US citizens granted asylum in EU countries every year and it's not a big deal diplomatically. Has been true for years. This WP article has a good summary and quotes a good stat: "12 U.S. citizens were granted asylum in Britain in 2015, meaning about 1 in 5 applications were successful"...
...generally the asylum application experience is different for people from countries like the US because they usually have a valid (temporary) visa already, speak English, etc, plus it's relatively rare, so generally those of us who volunteer at centres, outreach programmes, detention centres etc almost never encounter them (I never did when I used to volunteer). But they do exist
My original answer
Non of the European Union countries.
They will expect the USA to be able to protect its own citizens, and as such asylum will not be granted. Asylum is not easily given, not even to citizens of countries where the government is the reason the citizen has to flee for his life.
They might be willing to give grant to reside more easily than they would for other applicants, but that will be the officers to decide, not the system granting it as a rule.
You can try Russia, as it has proven to be willing to allow USA citizens unwilling to stay in the USA.
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