Gender-Based Asylum Claims

  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Eastern Time (US & Canada)
  • By: American Immigration Lawyers Association
  • This event takes place telephonically.
  • Source: Immigration Advocates Network > IAN Nonprofit Resource Center
Topics:
  • Gender

In 2014, the BIA issued a groundbreaking decision, Matter of A -R -C -G -, recognizing domestic violence as a basis for asylum. Our panelists will discuss current law and best practices for presenting a gender-based asylum claim in light of this decision.

Featured Topics:

  • Who Can Be Included in the Standards Set Forth in
  • Matter of L -R - (DHS) and Matter of A -R -C -G - (BIA)?
  • Proving Abuse
  • Showing Government Inability/Unwillingness to Protect Clients
  • Establishing Nexus: Gender-Based Asylum in the Context of Race, Nationality, Religion, or Political Opinion
  • Humanitarian Asylum

Faculty:

  • Dree K. Collopy (DL), AILA Author, AILA's Asylum Primer, 7th Ed., AILA Asylum and Refugee Liaison Committee Co-Chair/Media Advocacy Committee Vice-Chair, Washington, D.C.*
  • Gloria A. Goldman, Tucson, AZ
  • R. Mark Frey, St. Paul, MN*

*Invited, not confirmed

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