Political Opinion

Asylum / Withholding / CAT, Trainings & Guidance

Protected: Human Rights First Email Blast to Pro Bono Teams on 9/4/25 (Alert Re: Attorney General’s Issuance of 9/2/25 Precedent Decisions Impacting Asylum Based on Particular Social Group: Matter of S-S-F-M- and Matter of R-E-R-M- & J-D-R-M-)

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Asylum / Withholding / CAT, Samples & Templates

Protected: Redacted Sample Questions from 2026 Asylum Interview

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Asylum / Withholding / CAT, Samples & Templates

Model Immigration Court Filings in Support of Fictional Indigenous Asylum Claim

Model immigration court filings prepared by Human Rights First attorney Andrew Feinberg in January 2025. These model filings reflect some of the most common documents and motions an attorney will file in support of a client’s asylum case in immigration court. The materials are intended to be reviewed simultaneously, as part of a single fictional […]

Tags: 9th Circuit, Briefs, Country Conditions, Declaration, Defensive, EOIR, Evidence, I-589: Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal, Motions, Particular Social Group, Political Opinion, Race, Removal Proceedings, Women and Girls

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Asylum / Withholding / CAT, Samples & Templates

Protected: Redacted Sample Asylum Office Cover Letter-Brief: Nigerian Gender-Based Case

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Asylum / Withholding / CAT, Samples & Templates

Protected: Redacted Sample Pre-Hearing Brief: Honduran Anti-Extortion and Anti-Gang Political Opinion and Particular Social Group Case

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Asylum / Withholding / CAT, Trainings & Guidance

Practice Advisory: Considerations in Asylum Claims for Transgender People

Practice advisory authored by Immigration Equality, the National Immigration Project, Oasis Legal Services, the National Immigrant Justice Center, and Ready to Stay discussing considerations when advancing asylum claims for transgender clients. Published on June 2, 2025.

Tags: Affirmative, Defensive, I-589: Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal, LGBTQI, One-Year Filing Deadline, Particular Social Group, Political Opinion, Practice Advisories, Religion, Removal Proceedings, Trump 2.0 Policies

Asylum / Withholding / CAT, Samples & Templates

Protected: Sample Asylum Office Table of Exhibits: Yemeni Case Based on Sexual Orientation, Gender, Political Opinion, and Religion

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Asylum / Withholding / CAT, Samples & Templates

Protected: Sample Asylum Office Cover Letter-Brief before the Newark Asylum Office: Yemeni Case Based on Sexual Orientation, Gender, Political Opinion, and Religion

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Asylum / Withholding / CAT, Samples & Templates

Protected: Redacted sample pre-hearing brief: political opinion, race, and one-year-filing-deadline issues [country redacted]

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Asylum / Withholding / CAT, Samples & Templates

Protected: Human Rights First Email Blast to Pro Bono Teams on 9/4/25 (Alert Re: Attorney General’s Issuance of 9/2/25 Precedent Decisions Impacting Asylum Based on Particular Social Group: Matter of S-S-F-M- and Matter of R-E-R-M- & J-D-R-M-)

Protected: Redacted Sample Questions from 2026 Asylum Interview

Model Immigration Court Filings in Support of Fictional Indigenous Asylum Claim

Protected: Redacted Sample Asylum Office Cover Letter-Brief: Nigerian Gender-Based Case

Protected: Redacted Sample Pre-Hearing Brief: Honduran Anti-Extortion and Anti-Gang Political Opinion and Particular Social Group Case

Practice Advisory: Considerations in Asylum Claims for Transgender People

Protected: Sample Asylum Office Table of Exhibits: Yemeni Case Based on Sexual Orientation, Gender, Political Opinion, and Religion

Protected: Sample Asylum Office Cover Letter-Brief before the Newark Asylum Office: Yemeni Case Based on Sexual Orientation, Gender, Political Opinion, and Religion

Protected: Redacted sample pre-hearing brief: political opinion, race, and one-year-filing-deadline issues [country redacted]

Protected: Redacted sample index of exhibits for an immigration court filing for a Russian political opinion case

Protected: Redacted sample pre-hearing brief: Cameroonian PSG and political opinion case

Protected: Redacted sample pre-hearing brief: Guatemalan indigenous case