Hi there,
Recently my father applied for political asylum in United States. We had the interview few weeks ago, which went badly, mostly my fault (I'm 17 though), so we have been refereed to a Immigration Judge. About it, I'm wondering if this is bad and if this will be harder than the first interview. From that I read, over 70% of the people applying for asylum are refereed to a Immigration Judge. Is this true? What should I expect for the next interview?
My second question is about traveling. Basically, my mother and I are derivatives, but once again from what I read this makes no difference between the principal applicant and derivatives, so my question would be, can I travel back to my country BEFORE to get a Green Card? My life or my mother's was not really put in danger, my father was the one threatened with death. My grandparents are old and they won't come here (because they don't want, not because they can't) and they have only one daughter, my mother and it's already been a year since they haven't seen us, which for them is very long (we used to live like 2 block away and my grandma used to come to our house almost every day) so it's very hard for them.
I didn't really expect to remain here, I've been told that only if my high school registration will succeed I will remain (which I doubt at that time) so I wasn't even able to say a proper good bye to all my friends, family, girlfriend etc.
Thanks in advance
Recently my father applied for political asylum in United States. We had the interview few weeks ago, which went badly, mostly my fault (I'm 17 though), so we have been refereed to a Immigration Judge. About it, I'm wondering if this is bad and if this will be harder than the first interview. From that I read, over 70% of the people applying for asylum are refereed to a Immigration Judge. Is this true? What should I expect for the next interview?
My second question is about traveling. Basically, my mother and I are derivatives, but once again from what I read this makes no difference between the principal applicant and derivatives, so my question would be, can I travel back to my country BEFORE to get a Green Card? My life or my mother's was not really put in danger, my father was the one threatened with death. My grandparents are old and they won't come here (because they don't want, not because they can't) and they have only one daughter, my mother and it's already been a year since they haven't seen us, which for them is very long (we used to live like 2 block away and my grandma used to come to our house almost every day) so it's very hard for them.
I didn't really expect to remain here, I've been told that only if my high school registration will succeed I will remain (which I doubt at that time) so I wasn't even able to say a proper good bye to all my friends, family, girlfriend etc.
Thanks in advance