US Asylum Publications

Welcome Corps: New Way For Refugees To Come To The U.S.

01 February 2023

Author: US Asylum Lawyer Alena Shautsova The United States of America has always been a helper to other countries, especially in times of need. One avenue of assistance is the acceptance of and aid provided to refugees. Just last week, the Welcome Corps, which is a private refugee sponsorship program, was officially unveiled by State Secretary A ...

New Immigration Policy Leaves Traveling Venezuelans Stranded And Uncertain

18 October 2022

  Since the start of the Venezuelan crisis, the United States accepted hundred of thousands of Venezuelan refugees. In fact, according the most recent USCIS Asylum filing and processing data, Venezuelans are leading the numbers of the most recently filed asylum cases with about 25% of all cases filed. Most newly arrived Venezuelans would come th ...

Granting Refugee Status And Asylum For Those Refusing To Join Armed Conflict

11 October 2022

New developments from the Kremlin concerning the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine have once again raised concerns about international refugee status for Russian conscripts in the ongoing conflict. On September 21, President Putin enacted an order on mobilization that paved the way for an additional 300,000 conscripts to be added to t ...

Terrorism-related Inadmissibility Grounds: Newly Added Exemptions To Assist Allies From Afghanistan.

26 September 2022

Terrorism in Afghanistan is almost no longer news, especially with the Taliban having laid siege to the entire country. The fear of the worst has caused a lot of Afghans it to flee the country and seek refuge in other places. Many of them understandably fleeing to the United States. With this rapid development in fleeing migrants, it is expect ...

Asylum: What Is Enough To Win Your Case?

22 August 2022

Author: US Asylum lawyer Alena Shautsova The number of asylum applications filed in the United States is consistently growing by hundreds of thousands. Asylum benefits include US protection: regardless of the manner of entry, a person would not be deported from the United States; asylum benefits include a pathway to US citizenship; an ability to ...

The Truth About Seeking Asylum In The United States

05 August 2022

Author: US Asylum lawyer Alena Shautsova Immigration into the United States of America is no doubt putting a lot of strain on the government, people, and organizations involved in handling immigration issues. In like manner, the immigrants are not finding it easy. The nation they thought was supposed to hold the fulfillment of their great dreams n ...

Processes For Ascertaining Asylum And Credible Fear In The Interim Final Rule

23 July 2022

Undeniably, one issue that still plagues the American society and government is the issue of immigration. Having nearly if not completely torn the country into factions, rules and policies are continuously developed to curb or fix the issue. One such rule is the Interim Final Rule dedicated to the changing of the system of how may participate i ...

Why It Is So Hard To Win Asylum In The United States: A Straighforward Case Becoming A Complicated Nightmere

30 June 2022

Author: New York Asylum Lawyer Alena Shautsova With so many talks about immigration and a rising number of asylum seekers and refugees, it is almost not a strange thing to talk about yet another asylum seeker. Why is his case special? Why was he denied asylum? What led to the threats on his life? These are some questions this article seeks to ...

The Biden-Harris Administration Set To Put An End To The Restrictive Authority Of Title 42 At The U.S.-Mexico Border.

08 April 2022

Author: Alena Shautsova The Title 42 policy has been a reason for uproar and controversies in American society since its reenactment in March 2020 by then President Donald Trump. It was viewed as a systematic method to restrict asylum seekers from gaining entrance into the U.S. by the Trump administration. President Trump who was widely known for ...

President Biden's Administration Seeks Quicker Means To Resolve Asylum/Refugee Cases At The U.S. Border

02 April 2022

Author: Asylum Lawyer Alena Shautsova The teeming number of immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border hoping to enter the U.S. is no longer news. With the ever-growing number of asylum and refugee cases, so does a great number of these cases go unsettled year in year out. Hence, there's a need for laws and policies that would help in resolving these ca ...

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