Asylee N-400 Interview Experiences and 2009 Tracker

wantmygcnow said:
I thought as an LPR they have to challenge in court?
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That is for citizens not LPRs. They can administratively deport a LPR subject to judicial review after they make a final adminsitrative decision. To take away someone'e citizenship the Department of Justice has to file a suit in a federal district court as the first step.

wantmygcnow said:
They can just wake up one day and place you in removal proceedings? You are saying as an LPR you have no rights.
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You have full rights to plead your case to an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals and a federal court of appeals. The Department of Homeland Security can place any permanent resident in removal proceeding if they have grounds to believe that the person can be excluded. All I was saying in the earlier post was that if you were a LPR based on an asylum grant from the USCIS Asylum Division, the Asylum Division could at any time revoke the underlying grant of asylum (not the green card) and then place the person in removal proceedings. My point was that your asylum status does not go away when your adjustment application is approved.
 
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wantmygcnow said:
Once you got approved for GC in 2003, they asked you to come to local office to get biometrics..it wasn't automatic like now where they send you CODE 3 before they approve your GC. AT that time it was approved and then you go and submitted your bio 3 to be placed on your GC(pic and index fingerprint).

WHen she went there and took her bio for GC, she asked when she will get her GC, they told her few months. She asked how can then she show her status, they told her she can get stamped and asked her to get her NP. She said she has no NP so they told her to renew it. She did for 1 year. Thats what she told the interviewing officer during USC.
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Or the applicant could have asked the USCIS to give her a new I-94 as temporary proof of LPR status.
 
wantmygcnow said:
I will probably add this to the sticky where all have explained their citizenship experience.


My sister got approved for citizenship last week. Basically the officer asked her lots of questions about her asylum. Here are few:

Why did she renew passport?Her answer was that when she got her GC in 2003, they required you to get stamped thats why.

If she went back to her COP. She didn't so her answer was No.

Where are her parents and what do they do professionaly? Are they at COP and if they are..do u have any contact. I was wondering why they asked her that. Any insights on this?

Basically according to her its not a walk in the park for ex asylees. They do ask lot of questions about your original asylum claim according to her.
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Would be interesting to know how the process is different for those that are derivative asylees. I actually derived my asylum from my Mom who has now become a citizen and then had to undergo a nunc pro tunc process at which point I became a principal asylee. I wonder what questions I will be asked when I attend my citizenship interview next year.
 
vdostoi1 said:
Would be interesting to know how the process is different for those that are derivative asylees. I actually derived my asylum from my Mom who has now become a citizen and then had to undergo a nunc pro tunc process at which point I became a principal asylee. I wonder what questions I will be asked when I attend my citizenship interview next year.
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I think based on what I have learned from my relatives. The main points in asylee citizenship interviews are:

1)Are you still a valid asylee or you have done something to lose that status? I think valid returns to COP are ok in my opinion with correct evidence.

But something overwhelming as staying in COP for 5 months and then in U.S for few months etc or working for the COP government that persecuted you or something to the extent that it is obvious will raise eyebrows and may cause problems.

2)Are you still adjustable if you were to apply for I-485 again. My sister also entered with no documents and she never had to file I-602 as I did. She was also grilled as to how she entered and the means etc.


3)Do you have ties to any government that persecuted you. They grilled her on her parents and if they have ties to the COP governnment.

She also said that at one point, the officer stopped and asked her point-blank, would you able to go back to your COP? I think that was a bad question to ask..but maybe this officer was having a bad day?
 
thankful said:
That is for citizens not LPRs. They can administratively deport a LPR subject to judicial review after they make a final adminsitrative decision. To take away someone'e citizenship the Department of Justice has to file a suit in a federal district court as the first step.



You have full rights to plead your case to an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals and a federal court of appeals. The Department of Homeland Security can place any permanent resident in removal proceeding if they have grounds to believe that the person can be excluded. All I was saying in the earlier post was that if you were a LPR based on an asylum grant from the USCIS Asylum Division, the Asylum Division could at any time revoke the underlying grant of asylum (not the green card) and then place the person in removal proceedings. My point was that your asylum status does not go away when your adjustment application is approved.
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Thankful, so revoking an asylum grant is based on some evidence or because the conditions in home country changed? Also so if they revoke your asylum grant, the GC is also revoked?
 
wantmygcnow said:
I think based on what I have learned from my relatives. The main points in asylee citizenship interviews are:

1)Are you still a valid asylee or you have done something to lose that status? I think valid returns to COP are ok in my opinion with correct evidence.

But something overwhelming as staying in COP for 5 months and then in U.S for few months etc or working for the COP government that persecuted you or something to the extent that it is obvious will raise eyebrows and may cause problems.

2)Are you still adjustable if you were to apply for I-485 again. My sister also entered with no documents and she never had to file I-602 as I did. She was also grilled as to how she entered and the means etc.


3)Do you have ties to any government that persecuted you. They grilled her on her parents and if they have ties to the COP governnment.

She also said that at one point, the officer stopped and asked her point-blank, would you able to go back to your COP? I think that was a bad question to ask..but maybe this officer was having a bad day?
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The officer does seem to be more aggressive than usual. :)
 
thankful said:
Yes that is exactly the legal position the Department of Homeland Security has taken. For example, if a person was granted asylum by the USCIS Asylum Office and later got a green card, the Asylum Office still has continuing jurisdiction over that person. This means that the Asylum Officer can terminate that person's asylum grant at any time in accordance with normal regulations regardless of the fact that you have a green card. After they terminate the asylum status they must place you into deportation proceedings as a deportation alien.

So contratry to the belief of some people here, your asylum status is not history once you are a permanent resident. This is the what lawyers at the DHS have concluded. You are of coruse free to challenge that conclusion in a federal court if it ever affects you directly.
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does the asylum office still have jurisdiction over you once you become a US Citizen?
 
thankful said:
The officer does seem to be more aggressive than usual. :)
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Yes as she said "before they make you a U.S Citizen, they make you pee in your pants."

I am nervous as hell about mine now since they have asked all the same questions as asylum time. Not that i have done anything wrong but the fact that they bring up the whole thing again kinda makes you nervous.
 
Are there asylees who were NOT asked about their asylum cases at the interview? I don't fully know my dad's asylum claim because I was really young, and he doesn't want to tell me all the details because I guess he wants to protect his "kid," so I don't know what I'll say.
 
cafeconleche said:
Are there asylees who were NOT asked about their asylum cases at the interview? I don't fully know my dad's asylum claim because I was really young, and he doesn't want to tell me all the details because I guess he wants to protect his "kid," so I don't know what I'll say.
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I am in the same situation as yours. I left my country when I was 11 years old and I have lived in the US now for 18 years. I was first approved as a derivative asylee through the I-730 process and then had to undergo the nunc pro tunc process before adjusting to PR. So I hope I don't get asked questions about my mother's case as I also do not know the details of it.
 
vdostoi1 said:
I am in the same situation as yours. I left my country when I was 11 years old and I have lived in the US now for 18 years. I was first approved as a derivative asylee through the I-730 process and then had to undergo the nunc pro tunc process before adjusting to PR. So I hope I don't get asked questions about my mother's case as I also do not know the details of it.
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You can go and read your asylum application, I-589 which will tell you everything. Thats what the officers look at too. So it would be good to review that and see what you wrote long time ago? If you don't have it or misplaced it, you can request your A-file. I am in the process of filing a FOIA request to get my A file so I know everything beforehand.
 
wantmygcnow said:
You can go and read your asylum application, I-589 which will tell you everything. Thats what the officers look at too. So it would be good to review that and see what you wrote long time ago? If you don't have it or misplaced it, you can request your A-file. I am in the process of filing a FOIA request to get my A file so I know everything beforehand.
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That's the thing. I only attached my mother's application and said "(see attached)". I was approved based on whatever it said in my mother's application. Would you suggest I study her narrative and her case?
 
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vdostoi1 said:
That's the thing. I only attached my mother's application and said "(see attached)". I was approved based on whatever it said in my mother's application. Would you suggest I study her narrative and her case?
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You should but I think derivates don't get asked lots of questions about asylum of their parents.

Maybe Thankful can clear that up for us?
 
Unless there are exceptional circumstances, derivatives are not expected to answer detailed questions about the principal's asylum request.
 
Please make this a sticky...thank you

...These interview experiences are excellent references for those of us on track to go through the application process in the future....Thanks again. Why anybody would want to make a former asylee re-live the painful memories of persecution that they would rather forget totally puzzles me. All we can do is pray that God gives us a reasonable interviewer on our day.
 
Hi thankful,
With reference to ur post dated jul 23, 11:54 AM,
What about the asylum granted by IJ and not by USCIS Asylum office?
Thanks
 
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