PARDS Country-Specific Petitioner Confidentiality Warnings
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Right to Confidentiality as a Petitioner for Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and Convention Against Torture (CAT) based relief in the U.S.: If you are a petitioner for any of the aforementioned forms of relief in the U.S., you are entitled to confidentiality and have an obligation to protect it. You are encouraged to avoid discussion about your immigration status and objectives with family, friends, colleagues, and fellow nationals, both within the U.S., and in your country of origin. If denied permanent resettlement in the U.S. and repatriated to your country of origin, your government will view and treat you on the basis of what it thinks, rather than what it has empirical evidence to prove you did while in the U.S. Your activities while abroad may be used against you, your relatives, friends, and colleagues in your country of origin. A competent attorney would have advised you of same. WARNING: Foreign intelligence services are known to target and infiltrate U.S. based political, religious, social, and cultural organizations comprised of nationals and ex-patriots from their home country. It has come to the attention of this agency that a number of U.S. based ethnic groups, organizations, and offices staffed by individuals with close ties and bonds of affection toward their country of origin who offer, among other services, immigration related assistance to fellow ex-patriots seeking asylum, withholding of removal, and Convention Against Torture (CAT) in the U.S., are actually fronts which serve as portals through which hostile foreign intelligence services collect the identities (names and photographs), personal biographic information, views, opinions, and monitor the activities of fellow ex-patriots in the U.S. When selecting a source of assistance or legal representation, particularly in the context of asylum, withholding of removal, and Convention Against Torture based relief, avoid interaction with those comprised or staffed by fellow ex-patriots. In the absence of objective, independently verifiable, and empirically based evidence to the contrary, one must assume that those with close ties and bonds of affection toward your country of origin are vulnerable to inappropriate influence, pressure, and coercion from the intelligence services of your country, rendering your identity, immigration status and objectives, and personal information a vulnerable commodity. This series advises prospective and current petitioners of their right to confidentiality, provides tips on how to maintain it, and reminds them that if their confidentiality has been compromised, their government becomes aware of their activities in the U.S., and they are subsequently denied relief in the U.S. and repatriated, they may be subject to retribution by their government. In addition to limiting communication with family and colleagues in their home country, they are encouraged to seek assistance from alternate non-ethnic group specific sources in the U.S. For additional information regarding the nature and sources of the threat to petitioner confidentiality specific to a given country, call PARDS at 1 (609) 497 - 7663. PARDS Confidentiality and Safety Warning - Belarus Intelligence Services: DOC, 33.5KB |
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