Wednesday, January 24, 2018

an activist from Sudan



The asylum officer asked:
Show me  your passport? when does it expire? was it difficult to get?
Tell me all of your international travel! Why did you visit each country, and how long were you there?
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Tell me all of your addresses for the last 60 months: where did you sleep at night?
[the answer is not important for 90% of applicants, but we are not yet sure about you]
Tell me about all of your employment, in your life?
Oh,  you are unemployed now? Really? how are you supporting yourself? how do you pay rent?
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who helped you prepare your application?
did he read it back to you in your native language?
Why do you want asylum?
Whom do you fear?
  Because of your race/ethnic group, how were you harmed?
     any physical harm? tell me month, year, city. Go to doctor or hospital?
   -any threats? 
  - any economic harm?
Were you ostracized? shunned? not invited to parties or to lunches?
[some applicants use FGM to get asylum, but then they do it to their own daughters! We know this because we get access, secretly, to records]
Tell me how Mr. X threatened you! what words did he say?
What is the penalty for being gay in your country?
how many times were you arrested?
   for arrest #1, where were you at the moment of y our arrest? what was the man wearing? what did he say? why did he arrest you?
what does NEXUS  mean? it means the reason or motive why you suffered harm
you were in a group the man believed entitled him to harm you?
     Concerning arrest #2, where were you at the moment of your arrest? what was the man wearing? what words did he say? why did he arrest you?
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/they put you in a cell and started punching you? how did it end? why did they stop?
What would happen if  you return?
How would the government know you came back?
would you get arrested at the airport? why not?
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did you lie to get  your visa?
Isn't there at least one safe place for you to live in your country? Gov't in the capital city is angry at you, so don't live there: go to small city 500 miles away
Is there anything else?
Where did the money come from, for your airplane tickets? how do you pay rent, buy food, here in USA?
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