Asylum

    Representing Survivors Seeking Asylum

    Webinar Series Training (Pre-Recorded): Helping those Released from Family Detention: Asylum Options for Immigrant Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence (2016)

    This webinar series is for attorneys, accredited representatives, domestic and sexual violence advocates, mental health service providers and social workers already familiar with VAWA andU visas to help women and children released from family detention centers. Specifically, it is designed to expand your knowledge and capacity to help survivors fleeing domestic and sexual violence in their home countries apply for asylum.

    Webinar Series Training (Pre-Recorded): Webinar I: Asylum Overview (2016)

    Click below to access the training materials: 

    1. Powerpoint Presentation w/ Notes Page
    2. Tahirih Justice Center: Gender-Based Asylum Law Training: Quick Reference to the Law (4th Cir.)
    3. Handout: Asylum: Where to Find the Law
    4. Handout: Country Condition Resources
    5. Refugee-Asylum Flow Chart
    6. EOIR: Asylum, Withholding and CAT Factsheet
    Webinar Series Training (Pre-Recorded): Webinar II: Mechanics of Filing for Asylum (2016)

    Click below to access the training materials: 

    1. Powerpoint Presentation w/Notes Page
    2. Hypothetical Scenario
    Webinar Series Training (Pre-Recorded): Webinar III: Advanced Asylum Legal Issues (2016)

    Click below to access the training materials:

    1. Powerpoint Presentation w/Notes Page
    2. Hypothetical Scenario
    3. NIJC Practice Advisory on Particular Social Groups
    4. Blaine Bookey. "Gender-based asylum post Matter of A-R-C-G: Evolving Standards and Fair Application of the Law" Southwest Journal of International Law. Vol. 22.
    Seeking Asylum: Pro Se Manual for DV Survivors (available in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole, 2013)

    The Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) is pleased to announce the release  of our pro se manual for survivors of domestic violence seeking asylum, withholding of removal and Convention Against Torture protection in the United States - available in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole. We developed this manual in response to a call from advocates, and in recognition of the countless women who are eligible for asylum but due to lack of information and/or lack of access to legal representation, do not receive the protections they deserved. Our release of all three versions of this pro se manual is particularly timely given the refugee crisis at our border, and the thousands of women and girls fleeing abuse in Central America.