Every year, women from around the world apply for asylum in the United States to escape an abusive partner. In this article I find that domestic violence applicants may not be interpreted as viable truth tellers since they are missing specific markers of credibility, including legitimacy of fear...
In many cases, however, the officer will refer the case to the Immigration Court. It does not mean that the application for political asylum in the USA has been denied. What it means is that it will be an Immigration Judge who will decide whether or not there are grounds for one's app...
Healthright International, formerly Doctors of the World-USA, has for the past 15 years trained clinicians to perform forensic medical evaluations of torture survivors. As the burden of proof in asylum cases in the United States has increased, so has the scrutinizing of the evidence pre...
In late June, the U.S. carried out a rare mass deportation - to China.According to The Guardian, the flight bringing 116 Chinese citizens back to the country was the largest such operation in five years. While the Department of Homeland Security has had issues in the past deporting Chinese...
The United States intended to apply these last two criteria to individuals who have not been living in the US for a long time and been able to establish a home, career, and family. With the change in the procedure of USCIS to adjudicate asylum cases on a “last in, first-out” method...
In many cases sterilization is not formally coerced but required as a condition of employment. Consistency between the womans claim of forced sterilization and medical or psychological reports is essential to the success of asylum applications. US physicians should be prepared to play a documentary ...
“It would really expose the migrants to possible security threats,” he said. “The speed at which they process (asylum) cases in the United States could cause the number of people applying and waiting in Mexico to increase and create a critical situation.” ...
The Asylum does not have a good record, at least with regard to the high profile cases; most of the staff and guards are corrupt and escapes are frequent (on at least one occasion, an obsessive-compulsive multiple murderer was signed out of Arkham into the care of an incontinent, ...
“And that is why like Germany, like France and like other countries, we have paused asylum decisions on cases from Syria while the Home Office reviews and monitors the current situation.” Jenrick calls for asylum seekers to be sent back Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary and former...
If a person can establish that they belong to a group that is being “disfavored” by their government, i.e. the government either directly discriminates against them is unwilling or in some cases unable to protect them against the protected grounds of discrimination one part of the puzzle...