Helping Torture Survivors Heal

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Asylum Information

Click on the links below for statistics on the asylum process in the U.S. and information about the process itself. Some of the materials are self-help materials that can be shared with your clients.

Asylum Statistics

Affirmative Process through US Citizenship and Immigration Service (affirmative claims - monthly and yearly) (This link is to the USCIS web site, which is optimized for Internet Explorer. Please use Internet Explorer to open this link.)

Defensive Process (Immigration Court Proceedings) from the Executive Office for Immigration Review (defensive claims) (This link is to the USCIS web site, which is optimized for Internet Explorer. Please use Internet Explorer to open this link.)

Statistics for Individual Immigration Judges - find out your judge's approval rate overall and by country of origin

Asylum Information

Differences between Affirmative and Defensive Claims (This link is to the USCIS web site, which is optimized for Internet Explorer. Please use Internet Explorer to open this link.)

Explanation of the Asylum Process by US Citizenship and Immigration Service (This link is to the USCIS web site, which is optimized for Internet Explorer. Please use Internet Explorer to open this link.)

Asylum Information from Amnesty International

Immigration Legal History by USCIS (This link is to the USCIS web site, which is optimized for Internet Explorer. Please use Internet Explorer to open this link.)

Know Your Rights -- Information from the National Immigrant Justice Center in English or Español

Asylum and Immigration Partners