Asylum Trials: Evidence and Witnesses

03 Mar 2008 /  Asylum, Convention Against Torture

The standards of proof in asylum, withholding of removal and convention against torture trials allow Immigration Judges to grant relief based on the applicant’s testimony alone. The reason for this is that the law recognizes that those who are fleeing their home countries because of persecution are often unable to obtain corroborating evidence either before they leave or afterwards. [...]

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How to Prepare the Asylum Application the Right Way

28 Feb 2008 /  Asylum

Many of our clients come to us after their Asylum Applications (Form-I-589) have been denied by USCIS and they have been put into deportation proceedings. The first thing we do in these cases is review the Asylum Application. It is our experience that the overwhelming majority of self-prepared and non-lawyer prepared Asylum Applications are incomplete and [...]

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