Asylum Officer questions, December 2022, of an activist from a country in Asia:

Did you have assistance preparing your asylum application?

How did you find your lawyer? how many meetings did you have with him? how was your personal statement prepared?

Tell me your employment history

If you return to your country, where would you work?

Why did  you apply for asylum?

Did you suffer any physical harm?

Were  you ever threatened? tell me the month/year/city

What was the most serious threat you received?

You say a man came to your house. How do you know he worked for the government?

Did you receive any indirect threats? 

What is your religion? is your religion important to you?

What is your ethnic group?

When the man came to your house, what language did he speak?

His words were ambiguous, and apparently harmless. So, why do you believe he threatened you?

What would happen if you return to your country? What would happen at the airport?

Do you know anyone from your country, who came to USA, and then returned to your country? What happened to them upon arrival at the airport?

Has anyone been looking for you, in your country, since you have arrived in USA? 

Why are they looking for you?

Where would you live, if you return to your country?

You say you have protested in front of your embassy in Washington DC. So what? How would government officials in your country know what you did in Washington DC?

Have you seen yourself on video or photos in any social media at any protest?

Has anyone seen you, and told you, they had seen you?

Did you search the news, social media to see if you were presented in any pictures at the protest?

Are  you politically active on Social Media?

How are you politically active on social media?

What is your Facebook name?

Where would you live, if you return to your country?

Do you know of any person from your country, who studied in USA, and then returned to your country?

In your asylum application, you said RACE was important? why?

In your asylum application, you said  RELIGION was important? why?

In your asylum application, you said PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUP was important? why?

What is your mother doing? she has not suffered physical harm? why not? how do you communicate with her?

Do you have any family members who have suffered harm? If they have not suffered harm, why would you?

Your brother told you that two men talked to him on the street? 

why did he believe they were from the government?

What do you believe? why do you believe that?

Is there anything else?