8 A. Relevant legal framework 51. At the time of the facts alleged in the petition, the applicable legal standards with respect to migration and recognition of refugee status, respectfully, consisted of Executive Decree 24423 (Legal Regime on Migration) of November 29, 1996, and Executive Decrees 19639 and 19640 regarding the establishment of the CONARE. The following is a transcription of the relevant provisions. 1. On migration 52. The Legal Regime on Migration was governed by Executive Decree 24423, the pertinent portions of which are as follows: Article 41 Those foreigners who have been granted political asylum by the supreme government and those who have been recognized refugee status through the appropriate national organizations, which are required to apply for their registration in the Register of Foreigners, shall be granted a stay of one year, renewable indefinitely on an annual basis until the causes that prompted the application for asylum or refuge have disappeared. Political asylees and refugees are required to obey the laws, standards of the Republic, and provisions of the departmental administrations in the areas of residence that they have been assigned, as appropriate, or which they have established as their domicile, and which must be registered. Foreigners who enjoy either asylee or refugee status shall lose that status if they leave the country of their own will, without express authority from the supreme government, granted through the office of the Undersecretary for Migration, and without the travel document issued to them for that purpose. Anyone who returns voluntarily to their country shall also lose said status. Article 48 Foreigners shall be expelled from the country and prohibited to reenter Bolivian territory in the future on the following grounds: a) Possession or presentation at any time of a false or adulterated passport, identity card, or other documents; b) Illegal entry to the country in violation of provisions set forth in this Executive Decree, or presentation of false statements or fraudulent documents or contracts to the immigration or labor authorities; c) Staying in the country for longer than authorized by their visa or permission to stay, without due cause; d) When their permission to stay or residence has been canceled or annulled; e) When they have engaged in illicit trade, acts contrary to public morality or health, or vagrancy; f) When they have been involved, either directly or indirectly, in activities connected with trafficking in persons, drug trafficking, terrorism, trafficking or possession of firearms, or counterfeiting of currency, or have concealed or protected those who engage therein, even though the judgments convicting them might not order their expulsion; g) When they have in any way defrauded the treasury of the nation or institutions of the state; h) When they have committed crimes punishable by more than six months’ imprisonment or been convicted of false bankruptcy, even though the judgments convicting them might not order their expulsion; i) When they interfere in any way in domestic politics or the leadership of trade unions, or incite, by