an activist from Sudan

The Asylum Officer asked:
-who prepared your application? who helped you?
Can you repeat everything on page 1 of the I-589?
What was your last address before arriving in USA?
Tell me about all of your international travel: for each country, can you live there today, and why didn't you apply for asylum in that country?
-for each country you lived in, what was your immigration status?
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what is the immigration status of each member of your family?
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before they FGM on you, did they give you an anesthetic?
What complications did you suffer, afterwards?
did they remove all of the stitches?
was there pain upon urination?
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Do you have a political opinion? what is it?
When did it begin?
What did you do, in opposition to your government?
If a movie camera or camcorder followed you around, without any sound, what would be recorded?
How did you criticize your government? when, and where?
Does government know that you criticized it?
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if you say 8 sentences in a row, can the interpreter translate everything? NO? so why not just two sentences and stop?
Is a picture or a drawing worth 1,000 words? Yes! [so, create more exhibits which are drawings]
=What is your ethnic group? from your appearance, can people tell what group you are in?
-ethnic group is permanent, and easy to see, whereas a political opinion could be secret and ever-changing?
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After you departed from Sudan, you returned there several times, voluntarily?