Costa Rica immigration expects to grant legal status to roughly 10,000 people whose refugee claims were rejected or left undecided, under a special category that opens to applications on September 1. Omer Badilla, director general of the Dirección General de Migración y Extranjería, said the 10,000 figure is an expectation rather than a ceiling, and that the agency will likely process a larger number of applications than that. Meeting the requir…