(1) Affirmative Asylum Applications – USCIS Asylum Interviews

Chicago Asylum lawyer at the Odeh Law Group will help guide you through this asylum process. We will complete your asylum application, gather all the evidence necessary, and send it to U.S. Citizenship ad Immigration Services (USCIS) office which handles asylum cases for the area where you live. 

After you complete your biometrics, where your fingerprints are taken, a date is set for your asylum interview. At this interview, a USCIS officer will decide whether to approve or deny your application. We can be there for this interview.

(2) Defensive Asylum – Immigration Court Trials, Asylum Removal Defense, And Immigration Asylum Appeals

This usually happens if you are in deportation proceedings, or if your affirmative asylum application was denied and you are facing deportation. 

The government sends your case to immigration court for removal hearings. At this hearing, even if your previous asylum application was denied, you can start over by asking for asylum from the immigration judge, present new evidence, and if the judge decides that your application is still not worthy of asylum, you may be entitled to file an immigration appeal challenging the decision.