Guidance on gathering, presenting, and evaluating evidence for asylum claims including country expert witness reports, medical evidence, and documentation standards.
Internal relocation is the argument that a person at risk in their home area could move to a...
Sep 28, 2026
A sur place asylum claim comes from a person who was safe when they left home but would...
Sep 28, 2026
The one-year filing deadline is the first hurdle in many US asylum cases. Under section 208(a)(2)(B) of the...
Aug 4, 2026
Haiti sexual violence by armed gangs is now one of the strongest grounds for protection claims by Haitian...
SOGI asylum claims engage several legal authorities. The UK Supreme Court's decision in HJ (Iran) v SSHD [2010]...
A country expert report is a written document prepared by an independent expert with specialised knowledge of your...
International refugee law explicitly accepts that asylum seekers may not have documents. The UNHCR Handbook on Procedures and...
The UNHCR Handbook §196 establishes that asylum-seekers should receive the benefit of the doubt when their statements are...
1.8MUyghurs estimated detained since 2017 (upper bound, ASPI)[^1] Standard asylum evidence assumes: The applicant can describe specific events...
Colombia threat letters are often the only physical proof a client brings out of the country. Armed groups...
Darfuri ethnicity is directly relevant to Convention ground and risk level. Masalit, Fur, and Zaghawa people face genocide-level...
A Ukrainian mobilization-related asylum claim must address several questions. First, is the claimant in fact a person of...