New Asylum seeker questions

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Nalax

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Dear Friends

thank you for this great forum.

I will be in California next week and Im planning to file an asylum in Los Angeles, I'm on a B1/B2 Visa now. I have couple of questions that i wish you help me with.

1- Do you recommend any good law firm with reasonable fees to hire an attorney that can handle my case ?

2- after submitting your case to the asylum office, do they give you any ID card or any documents that you can have to show if necessary ?

3- Am I allowed to rent a place while waiting for my case ?

4- where can I find a cheap place to stay at in LA? rents are sky high and I cant afford to pay for. maybe you can suggest a way I can find a small room to rent with a family or something.

5- Do you think i will be able to find a job without a work permit ?

Thank you all in advance, i wish i can find some answers to my questions.

Regards
 
anyone guys?

your answers will be extremely helpful as I will arrive to LA and I dont know anyone there !
 
Nalax said:
Dear Friends

thank you for this great forum.

I will be in California next week and Im planning to file an asylum in Los Angeles, I'm on a B1/B2 Visa now. I have couple of questions that i wish you help me with.

1- Do you recommend any good law firm with reasonable fees to hire an attorney that can handle my case ?

2- after submitting your case to the asylum office, do they give you any ID card or any documents that you can have to show if necessary ?

3- Am I allowed to rent a place while waiting for my case ?

4- where can I find a cheap place to stay at in LA? rents are sky high and I cant afford to pay for. maybe you can suggest a way I can find a small room to rent with a family or something.

5- Do you think i will be able to find a job without a work permit ?

Thank you all in advance, i wish i can find some answers to my questions.

Regards
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1. I cannot recommend lawyers here (I know NY lawyers only and generally it would be advertisement) but yes having lawyer is crucial but sometimes lawyers make mistakes and they usually get away with that, so you must control lawyers, they ought to write your case so control they don't make any mistake, years, dates, names etc. Also double check that they received receipts. Good lawyer will train you for interview. Will make interview simulation where he pretends as if he is asylum officer and gives questions. If lawyer doesn't do it for you that he is just application filling assistant and you are wasting money having him. Good lawyer tracks credible expert contacts about your country. For example good lawyer finds expert in LA or wherever who writes opinion about you that you are in danger if you return. If lawyer doesn't do it for you I wouldn't retain such lawyer. However it doesn't necessarily means that lawyer is bad, because many young and newbie lawyers don't have expert contact details and they cannot find experts for your case but still they can be great affidavit writers and arguers in court. But my recommendation would be to hire lawyer who can promise you to find expert. Sometimes experts ask for money, but if expert is credible it worth paying.

2. They will send you receipt number (as well as to your lawyer) and soon after they will send you biometric appointment letter with your receipt number and alien number.

3. Yes you are free man if you submitted affirmative asylum. You can do whatever you want, travel in USA, rent, go to school. You cannot work and in some states cannot get driver licence. But in New Jersey you can still get driver licence. Usually your asylum case is not shared with other government organizations.

4. I live in New York so I cannot recommend LA. I was in LA in 2010. Beware poor and high crime places. You will not be in less danger than your home country if you get to really high crime areas in LA.

5. I believe you can find household work, like cleaning, moving jobs, some handyman work for household who pay in cash. Some people even manage to get restaurant works or even bartender positions, in LA bartender makes no less than lawyer, so if you are good looking, speak English and more or less know drinks and are communicable you have good chances to make money.

However I will tell you that as I know from this forum and in General from other people's experiences LA office is very busy office and they have huge work load. I don't want to scare you but you may be waiting for interview months and even years. So be aware of that. You never know you may be lucky and get interview notice in 2 weeks time, but it happens seldom and only lucky people get it. I waited for my interview 6 month. I applied in New Jersey office. which has less cases than LA office.

Wish you all the best
 
journalist777 said:
1. I cannot recommend lawyers here (I know NY lawyers only and generally it would be advertisement) but yes having lawyer is crucial but sometimes lawyers make mistakes and they usually get away with that, so you must control lawyers, they ought to write your case so control they don't make any mistake, years, dates, names etc. Also double check that they received receipts. Good lawyer will train you for interview. Will make interview simulation where he pretends as if he is asylum officer and gives questions. If lawyer doesn't do it for you that he is just application filling assistant and you are wasting money having him. Good lawyer tracks credible expert contacts about your country. For example good lawyer finds expert in LA or wherever who writes opinion about you that you are in danger if you return. If lawyer doesn't do it for you I wouldn't retain such lawyer. However it doesn't necessarily means that lawyer is bad, because many young and newbie lawyers don't have expert contact details and they cannot find experts for your case but still they can be great affidavit writers and arguers in court. But my recommendation would be to hire lawyer who can promise you to find expert. Sometimes experts ask for money, but if expert is credible it worth paying.

2. They will send you receipt number (as well as to your lawyer) and soon after they will send you biometric appointment letter with your receipt number and alien number.

3. Yes you are free man if you submitted affirmative asylum. You can do whatever you want, travel in USA, rent, go to school. You cannot work and in some states cannot get driver licence. But in New Jersey you can still get driver licence. Usually your asylum case is not shared with other government organizations.

4. I live in New York so I cannot recommend LA. I was in LA in 2010. Beware poor and high crime places. You will not be in less danger than your home country if you get to really high crime areas in LA.

5. I believe you can find household work, like cleaning, moving jobs, some handyman work for household who pay in cash. Some people even manage to get restaurant works or even bartender positions, in LA bartender makes no less than lawyer, so if you are good looking, speak English and more or less know drinks and are communicable you have good chances to make money.

However I will tell you that as I know from this forum and in General from other people's experiences LA office is very busy office and they have huge work load. I don't want to scare you but you may be waiting for interview months and even years. So be aware of that. You never know you may be lucky and get interview notice in 2 weeks time, but it happens seldom and only lucky people get it. I waited for my interview 6 month. I applied in New Jersey office. which has less cases than LA office.

Wish you all the best
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I cant thank you enough for the useful information.

I chose LA because of the high rate of approvals for asylum, knowing its an expensive place to stay at and how busy the office is.

will be waiting for someone from LA to help me with the rent thing.

Thank you :)
 
How are you if you want I can help you and guide you to a good attorney just accept my friend request
 
I live in LA right now I moved here last year from Chicago , I'll be honest with you LA is very expensive city and to rent a place you will need a social security so you need to look for a roommate , about getting an ID No way you can get an ID her till you get a social security number .
About getting job I think you can get a job easily under the table means you get cash BUT under minimum wage .
One more thing about LA here you need a car and in my opinion LA is not a great a place to live while you wait for your asylum decision .
I was living in Chicago and once I got my asylum I moved out here I waited years before moving here .

I wish you good luck and if you have any more questions please let me know .
 
shadi2001 said:
I live in LA right now I moved here last year from Chicago , I'll be honest with you LA is very expensive city and to rent a place you will need a social security so you need to look for a roommate , about getting an ID No way you can get an ID her till you get a social security number .
About getting job I think you can get a job easily under the table means you get cash BUT under minimum wage .
One more thing about LA here you need a car and in my opinion LA is not a great a place to live while you wait for your asylum decision .
I was living in Chicago and once I got my asylum I moved out here I waited years before moving here .

I wish you good luck and if you have any more questions please let me know .
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Thank you So much for the reply.
im choosing LA only because of the asylum approval rate in there. otherwise, i would go somewhere else.
im so confused :s
 
I applied for asylem in anaheim office but I live in san deigo
and I agree with shadi2001 you need a SSN number to find a place.

you can contact me I have sent you my cell number
 
science Yreeana

yeah LA office is so busy and it had a huge backlog my advise to you apply in the east side in new york or in washington dc anywhere accept LA and about the rents its expensive !
 
Waz you must come to san diego and see the life style here is much better the LA and I think the most beautiful girls is here is san diego
 
Thank you guys : )
im still having a trouble understanding how can i find a room to rent, maybe you can suggest a website.
ans how can i find the temp job while staying there just to cover my daily life expenses.
 
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