Sample simple Credible OR Reasonable Fear Interview Request A woman or child can give this to her deportation officer, and the officer should forward it to the Asylum Office. REDACTED Request for credible fear interview to Asylum Office for child old Return to Credible and Reasonable Fear Interviews in the context of family detention
Adults who are in reinstatement proceedings, and therefore their kids who are with them, are in a bad and dangerous situation because, a) only eligible for withholding of removal or deferral of removal under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). Withholding of removal and deferral of removal under CAT do not, in themselves, benefit the minor […]
Why are we even talking about children and credible or reasonable fear interviews?? We don’t normally think about children and these interviews. When children come alone, they are not in the immigration process, but as Unaccompanied Minors. As you know, between 2009, when the last bout of family detention ended, until June, 2014, ICE had […]
By “passing,” we mean that an Asylum Officer had found that a person had demonstrated a significant possibility of establishing, at a full merits hearing, at least a well-founded fear of persecution based on race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, OR a probability of torture in which the government […]
We say that someone has “passed” her reasonable fear interview when she has convinced an asylum officer, usually by sharing a detailed and consistent narrative of what happened to her in her home country and why she is afraid to go back, that there is a “reasonable possibility” that she will be persecuted (on the […]
Expedited Removal is the process by which Customs & Border Protection (CBP) or Immigration Control & Enforcement (ICE) may summarily execute an order of removal of a person without that person having any right to counsel or seeing an immigration judge, UNLESS person asks for asylum or expresses fear of removal. Expedited Removal can take […]
A “positive fear finding” by an Asylum Officer stops the Expedited Removal or Reinstatement of Removal high-speed express train. It allows the woman to apply for asylum, withholding of removal, and/or deferral of removal under the Convention Against Torture (CAT), if she has moved off the “Expedited Removal” tracks. It allows a woman on the […]
– Yes, a child has a right to her or his own interview – However, the Asylum Office has not typically conducted these interviews, and as of November 2014, Asylum Office was declining to interview children, who were present with their mothers. – By December, 2014, the Asylum Office began to grant credible fear interviews […]
Anti-immigrant members of a majority Democratic Congress, with the blessing of President Bill Clinton’s Administration, drafted the 1996 Immigration Reform & Immigrant Responsibility Act (IRIRA). Among the many punitive aspects of IRIRA are the ugly and mean-spirited twins, Expedited Removal and Reinstatement of Removal. Both are fast-moving processes designed to deport people as quickly as […]
Reinstatement of Removal is the process that the Department of Homeland Security, either CBP or ICE, uses to remove people from the U.S. who have been deported or removed in the past, or who left the U.S. on their own initiative while under an order of deportation or removal, and have reentered the U.S. without […]