dexter2005
Registered Users (C)
Hi all,
I have a friend who's fallen out of status for couple of years now. She came here as a F1 student, and graduated with a four-year degree in 2004. The reason for her falling out of status was that when she applied for OPT, the USCIS had sent to the college International office request for more evidence. This was never relayed to her by the college International student office, and therefore later the application was rejected (The college made her use the International Student Office mailing address in the OPT application). It was a mistake in her part that she never queried about the OPT card for the entire period of the OPT.
Once the OPT end date approached, she went to join a junior college in town to pursue a vocational degree, but found that she had been out of status in SEVIS. The International Student office at her old college said they never received the request for evidence sent by the USCIS, and therefore even wrote a letter stating the office never received the request for evidence. We thought of re-instating at the junior college - she even attended classes for few days, but decided against it as we were afraid that if denied, she would get the 3/10 bar. The college told her that her only option was to go back to her native country with a new I-20.
She was about to go back, but her family back home suggested not to since the Maoist insurgency in her home country was at its peak. Her family was getting extortion threats. While that was back in early 2006, the maoists insurgents have come to the mainstream with a very fragile peace process, but the threat from them still persists. They have been consistently threatening to go underground and pursue their military resistance if monarchy is not abolished in Nepal and country is turned into a republic.
Is this a sound basis for her to apply for asylum? Thanks!
I have a friend who's fallen out of status for couple of years now. She came here as a F1 student, and graduated with a four-year degree in 2004. The reason for her falling out of status was that when she applied for OPT, the USCIS had sent to the college International office request for more evidence. This was never relayed to her by the college International student office, and therefore later the application was rejected (The college made her use the International Student Office mailing address in the OPT application). It was a mistake in her part that she never queried about the OPT card for the entire period of the OPT.
Once the OPT end date approached, she went to join a junior college in town to pursue a vocational degree, but found that she had been out of status in SEVIS. The International Student office at her old college said they never received the request for evidence sent by the USCIS, and therefore even wrote a letter stating the office never received the request for evidence. We thought of re-instating at the junior college - she even attended classes for few days, but decided against it as we were afraid that if denied, she would get the 3/10 bar. The college told her that her only option was to go back to her native country with a new I-20.
She was about to go back, but her family back home suggested not to since the Maoist insurgency in her home country was at its peak. Her family was getting extortion threats. While that was back in early 2006, the maoists insurgents have come to the mainstream with a very fragile peace process, but the threat from them still persists. They have been consistently threatening to go underground and pursue their military resistance if monarchy is not abolished in Nepal and country is turned into a republic.
Is this a sound basis for her to apply for asylum? Thanks!