Originally Posted by
WillTravel
I've heard of asylum seekers on flights departing from China to Canada shredding their passports and flushing them. Presumably this gives them some sort of advantage to do this.
This happens quite a lot with Asylum seekers from many places.
I believe some do this because if the authorities cannot prove which country the ayslum seeker is originally from, they cannot send them back.
Also some countries are deemed automatically safe by the immigration authorities so you can't apply for asylum from them, so some bogus asylum seekers destroy their passports so they can claim to be from a much more dangerous country.