US Asylum Publications
17 March 2022
Author: Alena Shautsova
With the war brewing between Russia and Ukraine, it is expected that citizens of both nations would seek refuge in other countries. That is exactly what is happening, especially amongst those close to the most attacked areas. But Ukrainians and Russians did not just start seeking refuge in other countries today. A large num ...
20 May 2021
Author: USA Asylum Lawyer Alena Shautsova
New York Immigration attorney Alena Shautsova helps her clients to navigate complex waters of the US Asylum law when preparing and submitting their asylum claims before an Asylum office or Immigration Judge.
An asylum is one of the most common Immigration benefits a person with no status can file for in ...
12 April 2021
Author: US Asylum Attorney Alena Shautsova
New York Immigration lawyer Alena Shautsova helps asylum seekers to submit their claims for asylum, prepare for the interview, assist with further processing of the asylum claims if the case is referred to Immigration court.
It is no doubt that official immigration interviews such as an Asylum Interview ...
16 December 2020
Author: USA Asylum lawyer Alena Shautsova
The US government published final rules related to asylum regulations that will go into effect on January 11, 2020. These rules call for multiple significant changes in how the adjudicator (an Asylum officer or an Immigration judge) shall analyze one’s asylum claim, provide for new grounds of denial of an ...
06 December 2020
Author: US Asylum Attorney Alena Shautsova
US Asylum lawyer Alena Shautsova, based in NYC, Brooklyn, helps clients to understand US asylum laws, prepare and submit their asylum applications and fight for them in asylum office and Immigration courts.
When a person requests asylum in the United States, he/she declares that under no circumstances he ...
03 December 2020
Author: US Asylum attorney Alena Shautsova
New York Immigration lawyer Alena Shautsova helps clients with all aspects of asylum filings. In this article, we will discuss legal challenges to asylum that arise form dual citizenship and permanent residency of an asylum seeker and how dual citizenship or permanent residency may affect one’s asylum cha ...
12 November 2020
Author: US Asylum Attorney Alena Shautsova
Recently, the US asylum system underwent massive changes. The Trump administration proposed new regulations and changed the way the old regulations are enforced. One of them is the third country bar to asylum which may prevent one from getting asylum in the US.
Basically, a person who travels to the Unit ...
29 October 2020
Author: USA Asylum attorney Alena Shautsova
New York Immigration lawyer Alena Shautsova helps clients with affirmative asylum process in the US.
After USCIS changed its procedure for calling applicants for asylum interviews from a “first-come-first-serve” basis to a “last-in first-serve” basis, many people have found themselves stuck waiting for ...
20 July 2020
Author: USA Asylum lawyer Alena Shautsova
NYC Immigration lawyer Alena Shautsova helps her clients to win their asylum claims. Here, we will provide points for establishing persecution in US asylum cases that may help US asylum seekers in understanding the strength of their claims.
Persecution is a central concept in the US asylum law. If one e ...
05 June 2020
Author: Asylum lawyer Alena Shautsova
US Asylum laws are extremely complicated: we have regulations, international law asylum norms, decisions by the Board of Immigration appeals, US Federal court decision, and US Supreme Court decision. At the law office of Alena Shautsova, NYC Immigration lawyers are working hard to stay abreast of the recent ...