Friday, February 27, 2009

democracy activist from Burma

The Asylum Officer asked these questions:
1. can you repeat everything on page one of your I-589?
2. can you repeat everything on page two?
3. was your application read back to you in your native language?
4. PASSPORT: show me your passport. Let's look at each stamp in it. When was it issued? when did the USA give you a visa? when does passport expire? did you have problems before the USA gave you a visa, or after?
5. was it easy to get your passport, or did you have to pay "under the table money"?
6. you had to pay how much?
7. was it easy or hard to get out of your country? did you have to pay "under the table" money? how much?
8. you lived in Japan for 5 years? what was your status there? how often did you re-new your visa there? why don't you go live there now?
9. what other foreign country did you live in ? Thailand? India? why don't you go live there now? when you were there, why didn't you apply for asylum there?
10. how did you get your visa to enter USA? did you have a face-to-face interview with US Embassy man in your country? what questions did he ask? how did you answer? did you tell lies to the US Embassy? why?
11. do you have a political opinion? what is it? how strong is it? did you have it a long time ago, and also now, still, here in the USA? were you active in political activities in Burma, Japan, and USA? why not?
12. were you a member of a political party? did you hold a post? were you a big shot? were you well-known? conspicuous? notorious?
13. what did you do? sit in office and make phone calls? walk on sidewalk and distribute pamphlets? what did you do, that a movie camera would record?
14. you say you went to meetings? does that mean you walked into a room and sat in a chair? anything else? did you talk, discuss, and debate?
15. at the time of your arrest, where were you, and what were you doing? walking on sidewalk? sitting on a chair? lying down by a swimming pool?
16. what questions did they ask you, while they held you? what did they want to know? did they make any threats? what words did the guard say?
17. why did they arrest you? why did they release you? at the time of your release, what was the conversaton?

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