Overview of providing legal services to torture survivors seeking asylum

Practice Manual for Pro Bono Attorneys Representing Detained Clients with Mental Disabilities in Immigration Court

(2009, 124 pp.) Provides guidance for attorneys representing detained asylum seekers (and others) who have mental health issues; includes tips and information on getting mental health evaluations and services while detained.

Know Your Rights

Information from the National Immigrant Justice Center in multiple languages.

Differences between Affirmative and Defensive Claims

Statistics for Individual Immigration Judges

Find out your judge's approval rate overall and by country of origin.

Defensive Process (Immigration Court Proceedings)

from the Executive Office for Immigration Review defensive claims.

Affirmative Process through US Citizenship and Immigration Service

From the US Citizenship and Immigration Service.

How to Assuage Adjudicator Concerns About Mental Health Evaluation

Tip Sheet. (2011, 2 pp.)

Mental Health Professional Testimony in Asylum Cases

Tip Sheet. (2011, 2pp.)

Collaborating with Mental Health Professionals: Assessments of Torture Survivors Seeking Asylum

Tip Sheet. (2011, 4 pp.)

Sample Sequence for Mental Health Professional (MHP) Role in Asylum Process

Schedule of interaction points between lawyer and expert in preparing the case, National Capacity-building Project, 7/28/11, Materials from training institute: Torture Survivors Seeking Asylum: The Intersection of Forensic Mental Health Evaluation and Legal Representation. (2011, 1 p.)

Healthright Human Rights Clinic (east and west coast networks)

PHR’s Asylum Network

A community of hundreds of health professionals who offer pro bono forensic psychological and physical evaluations to document evidence of torture and persecution for men, women, and children fleeing danger in their home countries.

Request for Services form

Sample referral form to determine service needs of clients during the asylum process. Healthright International’s Human Rights Clinic.

Telling the Story: Preparing a Torture Survivor to Testify

Tip sheet. (2011, 4 pp.)

HealTorture.org

Helping Torture Survivors Heal

Legal Training