Person who invokes the protection of the 1951 UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees before the national authorities of a state and claims persecution to gain official refugee status in that country.
Lawrance Benjamin N., Ruffer Galya, Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status, Cambridge University Press, 2015, p. 50.
Based on North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO Standardization Agency, NATO glossary of terms and definitions, [NATO Glossary](https://fas.org/irp/doddir/other/nato2008.pdf) of Terms and Definitions (English and French), 2008, p. 2-A-20.