US Asylum Publications
03 December 2020
Author: US Asylum attorney Alena Shautsova
New York Immigration lawyer Alena Shautsova helps clients with all aspects of asylum filings. In this article, we will discuss legal challenges to asylum that arise form dual citizenship and permanent residency of an asylum seeker and how dual citizenship or permanent residency may affect one’s asylum cha ...
12 November 2020
Author: US Asylum Attorney Alena Shautsova
Recently, the US asylum system underwent massive changes. The Trump administration proposed new regulations and changed the way the old regulations are enforced. One of them is the third country bar to asylum which may prevent one from getting asylum in the US.
Basically, a person who travels to the Unit ...
29 October 2020
Author: USA Asylum attorney Alena Shautsova
New York Immigration lawyer Alena Shautsova helps clients with affirmative asylum process in the US.
After USCIS changed its procedure for calling applicants for asylum interviews from a “first-come-first-serve” basis to a “last-in first-serve” basis, many people have found themselves stuck waiting for ...
20 July 2020
Author: USA Asylum lawyer Alena Shautsova
NYC Immigration lawyer Alena Shautsova helps her clients to win their asylum claims. Here, we will provide points for establishing persecution in US asylum cases that may help US asylum seekers in understanding the strength of their claims.
Persecution is a central concept in the US asylum law. If one e ...
05 June 2020
Author: Asylum lawyer Alena Shautsova
US Asylum laws are extremely complicated: we have regulations, international law asylum norms, decisions by the Board of Immigration appeals, US Federal court decision, and US Supreme Court decision. At the law office of Alena Shautsova, NYC Immigration lawyers are working hard to stay abreast of the recent ...
14 May 2020
Author: Asylum Lawyer Alena Shautsova
In order to receive an approval of asylum in the United States, a person needs to have met a variety of criteria to prove that they have had past persecution or likelihood of future persecution based on their race, national origin, membership of a particular social group, religion or political opinion. On to ...
29 April 2020
Author: NYC Asylum Immigration Lawyer Alena Shautsova
The US Asylum process has drastically changed throughout the past four years, mostly becoming stricter, less reasonable, and introducing a Russian Roulette style elimination of the recognition of certain social groups. It has always been the position of the United States, as with most countries ...
07 April 2020
Author: Asylum lawyer USA Alena Shautsova
One of the criteria for determining whether an asylum case will be granted in the US or denied is a fear of future persecution. An applicant for asylum must establish that he or she is likely to be persecuted in the future if returned to home country, any part of their country. Moreover, a pattern or pr ...
28 October 2019
Author: New York Asylum attorney Alena Shautsova
Asylum cases that were filed before January 2018 may be pending for a very, very long time: years. At times, a person appears for an interview, but the decision is taking much longer than the usual two weeks.
If you need to submit additional evidence before your interview, in New York, new materi ...
25 September 2019
Author: USA Asylum Lawyer Alena Shautsova
A person applying for asylum in the US has to present his/her claim based on one of the enumerated grounds. Political opinion is one of them. Many actually refer to asylum benefit in the US as “political asylum.” It is surely one of the most popular grounds, but not the only one.
Typically, when we say ...