Submitting a Request

All requests for assistance must be submitted and received in writing via E-mail, FedEx (call for FedEx forwarding instructions), or U.S. Mail (signature of acceptance waived). Failure to waive the signature requirement will result in a delay of our receipt of your request, claim and payment, and may adversely impact upon the applicable deadline sensitive agency fee. Written, itemized estimates of applicable agency and expert fees are available upon request.

The basic information required is as follows:

Section A

  1. Complete name (and aliases) of the applicant

  2. Country(-ies) to which the applicant faces repatriation

  3. Specify the service(s) required (reference the Professional Services list)

  4. Performance deadline (date by which you are requiring the agency to satisfy your request)

  5. Credible fear interview date (with an asylum officer), or individual/merits hearing date with an immigration judge

  6. Specify the time (and time zone) the merits/individual hearing begins, versus the time (and time zone) you are requiring the agency expert to be prepared to begin testifying.

  7. Merits/Individual Hearing Venue (street address, floor, room number, city and state)

  8. Name of the Immigration Judge, together with any other information which the expert should be aware of regarding the degree of professionalism with which the IJ conducts themselves and the hearing (significant ethical and behavior anomalies).
  9. Specify the Claim Type
    1. Asylum
    2. Withholding of Removal
    3. Convention Against Torture (CAT)
    4. Cancellation of Removal
  10. Specify the Claim Status
    1. Pre-Filing
    2. Pre-Credible Fear Interview
    3. Pre-Master Calendar
    4. Pre-Merits/Individual Hearing
    5. Appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA)
    6. Appeal to the Federal Courts
    7. Motion to Re-open

Section B

  1. Name of the applicant's attorney

  2. Name of the attorney's law office/firm

  3. Complete street address of the law office/firm

  4. Attorney's direct office phone (with extension) and fax number

  5. Attorney's after hours phone numbers

  6. Attorney's e-mail address

Attach a complete, legible, unredacted, one sided photocopy (do not use staples) of the claim (I-589, Report of Investigation, or other applicable Government forms), petitioner's supplementary affidavit, together with all other claim-relevant documents which you would like to agency expert to review and take into consideration when developing a merit assessment of the claim.

Those requesting a Report of Investigation reliability assessment, and/or Foreign Government Agency and Non-Governmental Organization issued document authentication, call for information regarding what is required and forwarding instructions.

INS detainees

In addition to section A or B above include the following:

  1. Complete name of a relative, friend, or associate with whom the agency can contact and discuss your case and research requirements

  2. Complete street address

  3. Office phone and fax number

  4. Home phone and fax number

  5. E-mail address

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