At the end of the interview, your asylum lawyer will ask follow up questions. Usually, these questions help clarify issues that the attorney believes the asylum officer did not understand, or help "save" you from previous answers that hurt your claim. The attorney will also be able to ...
Including Family Members:You can include your spouse and children in your asylum application. They must be listed as dependents and meet specific eligibility requirements to be included. FAQs: Form I-589 for Asylum Guide Do you have more questions about Form I-589 for Asylum? Read answers to ...
We further extend on previous research by showing that the free recall phases only elicited half of all key aspects of the claims and that mis‐matched answers and difficult or unanswerable questions were alarmingly common. Interviewers would benefit from more training in asking open questions, ...
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Her asylum interview took over five hours. There was no reason for such a long interview given that she is (1) a female human from Afghanistan; and (2) not a terrorist. Her interview should have taken 10 minutes. There are many applicants like this, and if the Asylum Office took a ...
This interview with a young asylum claimant from Tunisia took place in the office of the interviewing caseworker. The analysis of the interview is instructive because it allows us to clearly follow and understand the course and structure of an asylum interview, the standard key questions and the ...
In refugee contexts, so-called language tests or language analyses also play a gate-keeping role, but a more ambitious one; namely that of providing answers to questions concerning the genuineness or honesty of asylum seekers' claims about their origins, whether national, regional, or ethnic. ...
In today’s world, we are very eager to rely on the Internet for all the answers, but luckily, I was born and grew up without the Internet. I realized that if a person is not publicizing himself or herself on Facebook, YouTube or Twitter, it does not mean that a person is not ...
I was embarrassed by the questions. Each of my students is living proof that no one has come close to knowing the answers. My class, a subset of the estimated 10,000 asylum seekers in Hong Kong, which is, in turn, a tiny microcosm of the 65 million displaced across the globe, ...
An applicant for adjustment of status under section 209(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1159(b) (2018), must possess asylee status at the time of adjustment, and thus an applicant whose asylee status has been terminated cannot adjust to lawful permanent resident sta...