In some cases, Super-Search uses other search engines to find its results. For instance, the Refugee Review Tribunal of Australia maintains a database of over 20,000 decisions. Rather than copy their database for searching, Super-Search uses the RRT's own search engine to query the existing database. The top five results from the RRT database are then displayed as results from Super-Search.

In other cases, a search engine is not available for Super-Search to use. For instance, the US State Department does not have a search engine for its human rights reports. In these instances, asylumlaw.org has created its own searchable database for use by Super-Search.

Finally, there are some instances where an existing search engine is either too unreliable or too broad in its scope. Amnesty, for example, has their own search engine for their site. However, we have decided to create our own database that contains only the country reports on their site. For this reason, using Super-Search to search Amnesty material may give you different results than using the search engine on that site.

Use the pull-down menu, Any of the terms All of the terms As a phrase , to select the type of search you wish to perform. Do not use quotes, parentheses or any other form of punctuation.

The documents available on asylumlaw.org, including searchable PDF documents (note: PDF documents that are scanned images are not searchable).

Country reports and news releases from the Amnesty International site (search database is updated bi-weekly). NOTE: this database includes ONLY the country reports and news releases on the Amnesty site, not the entire site itself. Using Amnesty's own search engine (located at: http://www.amnesty.org/search.html) might give you different results.

The REFINFO database at the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board website. REFINFO is "is a compilation of Responses to Requests for Information submitted to the Research Directorate during the refugee determination process."

The REFQUEST database at the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board website. REQUEST is "a database which contains the research papers in the Question and Answer Series published by the Research Directorate since 1995. The papers provide concise and current information on specific issues of interest to the IRB in countries of origin of refugee claimants."

The REFLEX database at the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board website. REFLEX is a database of recent immigration decisions by the IRB. NOTE: Super Search only searches on English decisions. Searches on French language decisions are available at the CIRB website.