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Source: Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. 20520
Origins: At the request of what was then the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor prepared a Profile of Asylum Claims and Country Conditions Report for each of the 51 countries listed below. These 51 countries were targeted due to the unattractive nature of the race, religion, social customs, culture, and/or number of individuals requesting asylum in the U.S.
Significance: Asylum Officers and Immigration Judges rely upon State's Profiles of Asylum Claims and Country Conditions, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, and International Religious Freedom Reports to serve as a principal lens through which they come to understand reality on the ground in the country to which the applicant faces repatriation, and a principal standard against which to discern the meritorious nature of the claim.
NOTE: Unlike State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices and International Religious Freedom reports which are released annually, the Profiles of Asylum Claims and Country Conditions reports are released irregularly (every 1 to 10 years).
To obtain a copy of a Profile of Asylum Claims and Country Conditions report, not yet appearing on this page, or to verify that those appearing here are the most recent version available, contact PARDS.
WARNING: Like the Department of State's International Religious Freedom reports and Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Profiles of Asylum Claims and Country Conditions reports are neither complete, nor accurate. A generic PARDS critique of this series should be downloaded with, and accompany each of the reports below. This critique is a working paper, updated periodically. Detailed report-specific analysis and critiques identifying distortions written into, and significant omissions written out of individual reports are also available. For information on how to obtain a detailed, report-specific critique, contact PARDS. Unless a corrective lens (documentation, and/or expert testimony) is provided by the applicant, asylum officers and immigration judges will assume that the content of State's reports are complete and accurate.
PARDS critique of D.O.S. Profiles of Asylum Claims and Country Conditions reports (rev. November 2004) (DOC, 41KB).
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