ASYLUM
Asylum Law
Establishing Eligibility for Asylum
Establishing Eligibility For Asylum Legal Authorities Statutes Immigration and Nationality...
Persecution
What is persecution? Severe harm or suffering May involve physical violence Non-physical v...
Unable or Unwilling
Establishing that the Government is "Unable or Unwilling" to Protect the Respondent REQUIREMENT...
Credibility
Particular Social Group (PSG)
Formulating a successful PSG for asylum. Family Membership LGBT
PSG REGULATIONS
PSG REGULATIONS 8 CFR 208.1(c) Particular social group. For purposes of adjudicating an applica...
LGBT Particular Social Group Cases
LGBT Particular Social Group The applicant must prove that the persecution they fear in the futu...
Recognized PSG's
SECOND CIRCUIT Resistance to Female Subordination to Male Dominance in El Salvador Hernan...
Formulating PSG's
Formulating a PSG During the past decade, it has become increasingly important that attorneys fo...
Family Membership
Family Membership as Particular Social GroupPSG practice advisory_final 7 19 21.pdfNexus_-_Partic...
Safe Third Countries
Dual Citizens Zepeda-Lopez, et al. v. Garland, No. 19-145 (2d Cir. 2022) Case Summary Petition...
Nexus
Nexus between the PSG and the harm/persecution.
Recent Restrictions on Asylum
RECENT RESTRICTIONS ON ASYLUM THAT HAVE RECENTLY BEEN PUT IN PLACE Circumvention of Lawful P...
Failure to Report
The Second Circuit has remanded an asylum claim for a Honduran woman who had been the victim of f...