June 13, 2025 questions by Asylum Officer to an activist from Burma:  Part One of Two

Did anyone help you do I-589? how did they help? any updates? any new documents for today?  How many years did you live in Shan State? How long have you been a Muslim?

Did you provide a written statement? What is a statement? what is a declaration? what is an affidavit? you don't know the difference? so why do you quickly and glibly answer my questions?

DS-160: did you ever apply for a visa before? how many times? Your first visa application: did anyone help you prepare it? is everything in it true? Does it ask if you were arrested? You were arrested, weren't  you? So, you lied on your DS-160? You had a face-to-face interview at US Embassy? you told more lies to the officer?

What false statements are on your second visa application? You have not read it, recently, have you? But I have, yes?

Tell me your immigration status and applications here in USA?

When apply for TPS? when did you re-apply? Tell me about your F-1 and your association and activities at the  university!

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Have you ever been harmed or threatened? When was the first time  you were threatened? when was the second time? when was the third time? which time was the worst?

   What is a threat? A soldier could walk up to you, and say, "If you do not give me money right now, I will shoot you." That is a direct, verbal threat?

If yesterday, your friend received a direct, verbal threat, is that a "threat" for you today? Living each day in Burma is a "threat," isn't it? Each day, the government threatens its people. Everyone lives under threat every day. This is an indirect threat, perhaps.

What is "harm"? There are many kinds of harm. Each day in Burma you feel anxious and nervous? Each day, you suffer emotional harm?

What did you see with your eyes? Three smiling young girls, with flowers in their hands? NO? Three large, angry-faced young muscular men in uniforms, with guns, and they were not from your ethnic group?

What is a Bamar? how do they look different from you? How do they know you are not a Bamar?

You lived for ten years in Mandalay? Five years in Irrawaddy?

When you told the officer your cousin was a student in USA, the officer said, "Oh, she is getting brainwashed there to hate her own country?"

How many protests did you attend in Burma? How did the government know that you were protesting, in the middle of the street, in broad daylight?  Who are the dalan? What do they do?