Affirmative and defensive asylum filings, credible fear and reasonable fear interviews, the one-year filing deadline, and recent precedential decisions.
The Rhode Island vacatur helps everyone on paper. Jim Hacking argues a named-plaintiff suit still moves a paused asylee green card faster. Here's why.
Firm resettlement bars asylum: if you can live permanently in a third country, a U.S. asylum claim can be a dead letter and risk a frivolous finding.
Asylum is voluntary. If a lawyer or notario pressures you into a claim you don't believe in, you can refuse — and a frivolous filing carries permanent bars.
An applicant who got her marriage-based green card in April and withdrew her pending affirmative asylum case in May still received a USCIS letter demanding the new asylum filing fee. The fix turns on where she sent the withdrawal — and where she did not.
Roughly 50,000 people in Kuwait have lost their nationality under Decree-Law No. 116/2024 since the Emir suspended Parliament in May 2024. For those already in the United States, the loss of citizenship triggers U.S. visa revocations — and a narrow set of remaining legal options.