Internal relocation alternative is one of the doctrines recently developed to determine refugee or asylum seeker status in a host country. It basically examines whether the asylum seeker has exhausted all his opportunities of relocation in his country of origin during status seeking. This principle is also considered as an alternative of phrases i.e. 'well-founded fear of persecution' or 'unable to avail protection in his country of origin' under article 1A(2) of the Refugee Convention 1951 during the determination of refugee status. We can expand the doctrine from country of origin to the territory of host country. If the asylum seekers are already in the host country with minimum chances of repatriation 'internal relocation alternative' might function as a benefactor of principle of non-refoulment. UNHCR has recognised 'internal relocation alternative' in its handbooks and it may examine the expansion of this principle in the host countries as well.