Afghanistan #2

The asylum officer asked:
who are  you afraid of?   anyone else?
When did  your uncle first hurt you?
The Department of State report says, "women can live with any male relative." Is this true?
What harm did you suffer in 2009? 2010?   please tell me your problems chronologically
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You say he hit you? how did he hit you?  Please demonstrate! please stand up and move your arm as he did [what did Perry Mason do in "A Place in the Sun"?}  [he stood up, and smashed the oar down, with a loud noise]
Are there different kinds of harm? YES.   physcial, mental, economic.
"When was the first time he hurt you"? is a broad question?   do you mean when was the first time he hurt you physically?
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How often did he hurt you?  he hurt  you continuously?  How often did he physically hurt you?
What was the worst time he hurt you?
When was it, that he hurt you the worst?   You can be hurt at least 3 different ways: physically, mentally, and emotionally?  So, your answer should have three parts to it?
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If the officer asks the same question three times, what does that mean?
if the officer asks the same question twice, and then sighs, what does that mean?
-he "never" let you depart from the house?  or do you mean, "most of the time," he prevented me?
-why did you finally decide to depart from your country? why not depart earlier? why not sooner?
How did you pay for your airplane? how much money did your sister give you?
What would happen if you return to your country?
You had problems in your capital city?OK, so why not go live in another city?
-why do the witness statements all look the same? who wrote them?
why not go to the police with your problems?
did you have any contact with the Taliban? did you give them "material support" even if under duress?
Is there anything else? isn't there something I did not ask you about?

Afghanistan: victim of domestic violence

The interview with asylum officer lasted 3 hours. The first hour and one fourth were spent on subjects OTHER than harm suffered in the country.
   Instead, the officer asked:
-did anyone help you prepare your application? How did he help you? How was your application created?
-did you review your app in your native language? Did someone read back your app to you, in your own language?
-does your written statement include all relevant details?
-does your statement include all the harm you suffered?
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did anyone help you with your visa application? how did you prepare and submit DS-160, the application for a visa?
-was everything in that app true and accurate? NO? you lied by telling the Embassy you would return to the country, when you had no plans to?  Why did you lie?
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Let's see if you can repeat page one of I-589 without looking at it: your full name? DOB? POB?
ethnic group? religion?
-tell me the names, and DOB of each of your children
-telll me the names and current location of each of your nine siblings. Why are only four siblings mentioned?
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What was your last address in your country?  you lived in a house, without a number, on a street that had no name?  OK< then, say that
-is the Afghan calendar different from the U.S. calendar?
Tell me each address  you lived at in the USA, and who you lived with.
Who owns that house in Alexandria? you have lived there for 12 mnths, and you do not know the last name of the owner?
Who are you living with, right now?
Are you working? how do you pay rent? who buys the food?
you are not working in the USA? so what do you do, all day?
-Tell me the name, and current location, of each and every family member. You did not write it down on your app; so we are going to do it right now, which by the way is rather boring for me
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Who translated your documents? where is the cert of translation? why isn't there one?
I want to see an original, hand-written statement in the Pashtun language, along with the envelope it came in!
At  your lawyer's office, your son was your translator, but today, it is someone else?  Are there large difficulties in translation?
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Why did you come to the USA?
Who are you afraid of?