Political Asylum Research and Documentation Service

Specialties

Asylum; Withholding of Removal; Convention Against Torture; Suspension of Deportation; NACARA; VAWA; Humanitarian Parole; Cancellation of Removal; 601A Waivers; BIA & Federal Circuit Courts Appeals; TPS; Visas

For Non-​Detainee & Detainee Petitioners

Services

–Claim preparation*

–Assess petitioner credibility, claim plausibility & merit*

–Case relevant documentation*

–U.S. & foreign legal research*

–Lawyer & lawyer mentor referrals

–Translation

–Tutorials: consumers, law school Immigration clinic students; attorneys; paralegals; country experts.

Country Experts:

–Assess petitioner credibility, claim plausibility & claim merit

–Credentials verification

–Assess topic-​specific, claim relevant credentials strengths & limitations, bias, temperament, ethics & professionalism, & availability

–Documentation

–In-​country research

–Written claim-​specific critiques — affidavits

–Telephonic/​in-​person testimony

–Dept. of state report source, accuracy, completeness & reliability assessments/​rebuttals

–U.S. & Foreign legal research*

–Legal briefs;*

–Forensics Document Laboratory (FDL);

report & examiner/​author credentials analysis & rebuttals;

–Fraud prevention investigator report & author credentials analysis & rebuttals;

–State Dept. Office of Country Reports and Asylum Affairs Advisory Opinion & author credentials analysis & rebuttals;

–Assess State Dept. report source, content accuracy, completeness & reliability.

* Intended for pre-​filing attorney review/​approval.

History

Established in 1993.

Country, period & topic-​specific documentation: 1993-​present

Overcoming fraudulent content (distortions written into & significant omissions edited out) of State Dept. case-​specific Advisory Opinions: 1993-​present

Identifying, screening, credentials verification, training & providing access to internationally known & respected country experts with country, period, topic-​specific, claim relevant expertise: 1995-​present

Overcoming unfounded findings of document fraud both from the Forensics Document Laboratory (FDL) & Fraud Prevention Investigators stationed at & operating out of U.S. Embassies & Consulates: 2002-​present

Analyzing & verifying case-​relevant credentials of FDL examiners & U.S. Embassy & Consulate based Fraud Prevention Investigators: 2002-​present

See: Third Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Precedent Decision, Guao Lin Dong v. Atty. General of the U.S., no. 09 – 2524, Argued January 10, 2011 (page 6)

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