US Asylum Publications
09 December 2014
Author: Asylum Attorney Alena Shautsova
USCIS has announced another important initiative for parole for children from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to request to bring their children to the United States as refugees via US Refugee Admission Program (“RAP”). The applications will be considered on a case by case basis, and if there are strong ...
06 September 2014
Author: New York Asylum Attorney Alena Shautsova
A person may successfully seek asylum in the US if he/she can demonstrate that the asserted claims are based on political opinion, religious beliefs, race, nationality or membership in a particular social group.
This last category is the most open one for interpretation. In the past, it has been re ...
05 August 2014
Author: New York Immigration lawyer Alena Shautsova
To file for asylum in the US, a person seeking asylum has to fill out and submit to USCIS form I-589 that can be found on www.uscis.gov. The form is free. Make sure to download the latest edition of the form. Every person who is filing the case on his/her own has to read instructions to the for ...
04 July 2014
Author: US Asylum attorney Alena Shautsova
Thousands of people come into the United States every year to find shelter and protection form terror and abuse in their home countries. The US provides for this protection in the form of asylum: status that allows non-US citizens to live and work in the US and apply for green card (permanent residency) e ...
07 April 2014
Author: US Asylum attorney Alena Shautsova
Many asylum applicants are concerned with the timeline for the affirmative asylum process. It is used to be the case that after an asylum application was filed affirmatively, an applicant could have expected to be called for an interview within a couple of months after the filing date. However, within th ...
05 February 2014
Author: Asylum Attorney Alena Shautsova
To reflect changes caused by the Asylum class action law suit, Immigration Court practice Manual has been updated to include new definition and procedure for a lodged asylum application. The changes help asylum applicants to lock in the date from which their time for employment application will start to run ...
14 November 2013
Author: US Asylum Lawyer Alena Shautsova
Asylum is a special status granted to those who can demonstrate fear of returning to their home country due to the past persecution or future persecution. A successful asylum application leads to a green card and subsequently to the US citizenship. Please visit our web page about Political Asylum In The USA ...
02 November 2013
Author:Asylum Attorney Alena Shautsova
In the recent decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Bondarenko v. Holder, the court held that an applicant for asylum possess due process rights that must be observed even if the government or an Immigration Judge believes that the applicant is not credible.
The case is of a Russian national who w ...
04 September 2013
Author: Asylum Lawyer Alena Shautsova
Very often a decision to file an asylum claim is a difficult one. It is not because the person has not suffered persecution or lacks proof of his/her claim, but because the person is afraid that the information he / she shares with the government will be conveyed to his/her persecutors and the person will be h ...
31 August 2013
Author: Asylum Attorney Alena Shautsova
Asylum applicants are often confused as to what exactly they need to show in court or during the interview to be able to sustain a successful claim. The fact that a person happens to be from a particular country, even if it is well known for violations of human rights, does not by itself guarantee that a per ...