Found good resource about decision mailing, pick up rule

Old INS did not require in-person service of decision until 1995, when asylum system was reformed. David Martin, an asylum scholar, wrote this about the change in how decisions were to be served:

Beyond calling for more staff, the team that worked on what became the 1995 reforms went carefully over all steps in the existing asylum process, to identify and eliminate inefficiency and duplication. Written denial letters from asylum officers were replaced with a short checklist and a quick referral to the immigration court, if the officer was not persuaded to grant asylum. The referral makes use of the initial application form already filed, instead of waiting while a new application is completed for the court proceedings — as had been the former practice. The new process also requires applicants to come back approximately two weeks after the interview, in order to pick up the decision in person. They have a strong incentive to appear, because the outcome might indeed be favorable. But if the decision is not a grant, this procedure assures effective service of a charging document that initiates deportation proceedings, in a form that would support a removal order, even if the applicant fails to appear in immigration court. (No-shows had been a problem under the old system.) The basic message is this: we are serious about protection if you meet the refugee standard. But we are equally serious about deportation if you do not.

The entire article is very interesting and worth reading:

http://cis.org/1995AsylumReforms
 
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