Asylum Interview and Questions
Asylum Interview and Questions
The asylum interview can be the most important part of the asylum application process. It is your opportunity to tell your story in your own way.
Once you enter the asylum interview office, the asylum officer will greet you and ask you to stand and raise your right hand. The asylum officer will then swear you in. You will then take a seat and the asylum officer will begin asking you questions. If you don’t understand a question, say “can you please repeat the question” and if you still don’t understand the question, you can say “I am sorry but I don’t understand the question.” If you get emotional during the interview, that is absolutely fine. However, your interview is not the time to hide or be shy about telling your story.
Each asylum officer has a different style of interviewing, but generally, the below questions will likely be asked.
Asylum Interview Questions
- What is your complete full name?
- Where do you currently live?
- Have you ever applied for asylum in another country?
- Do you have legal status in another country other than your home country?
- Did you leave the United States after applying for asylum?
- Have you ever committed acts of terrorism?
- Have you ever committed acts that harm others purposefully?
- What city were you born in?
- What country were you born in?
- What is your date of birth?
- Are you married?
- What is your spouses name?
- Do you have children?
- What are the names of your children?
- Have you ever been to immigration court?
- Have you ever committed any crimes while in the United States?
- Have you ever committed any crime in your home country?
- Have you ever lied to the United States government?
- When did you last leave your home country?
- How long have you been in the United States?
- How many times have you been to the United States?
- Do you fear going back to your home country?
- If you fear going back to your home country, why?
- Have you ever been harmed in your home country?
- Have you ever been physically harmed in your home country?
- Have your friends and family ever been harmed in your home country?
- Why were you harmed?
- When were you harmed?
- Explain how the harm happened?
- Have you or your family members ever been accused of, charged, detained, interrogated, convicted, sentenced, or imprisoned in any country?
- Have you ever been part of an organization or group like a political party or social group?
- Have you ever been tortured in your home country?
- When were you tortured?
- Where were you tortured?
- Do you believe you will be tortured if returned to your home country?
- Who will torture you?
- Have you reported these abuses to the police of your home country?
- What did the police do?
- Have you ever moved to a different part of your home country to avoid the abuses and harm from happening again?
- After leaving your home country, did you return?
- Have you ever been forced to commit acts of violence?
- Do you have any additional evidence, statements, affidavits, or anything that you would like to submit today?
- Do you have other family here in the United States?
- Do you have family back home in your home country?
- Do you have anything else you would like to add today?
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Contributed by Svetlana Prizant, an Award Winning New York Immigration Lawyer
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