Drafting Asylum Brief

Sample Brief—Political Claim

Immigration Justice Campaign
A sample brief for our fictional client, Julian Ngongbo.

Sample: Asylum, Withholding, and CAT Brief and Index of Submissions: Political Opinion and Nationality

Immigration Justice Campaign
Sample asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT brief and index of submissions, for a journalist from Nigeria who was persecuted on account of his political opinion and nationality. This 2024 sample brief also includes arguments under the 2023 Circumvention of Lawful Pathways asylum limitation rule, including exceptions due to medical emergency, imminent threat to life or safety, and family unity.

Sample Asylum, Withholding, and CAT Brief: Political Opinion and Tribal Particular Social Group, Firm Resettlement

Immigration Justice Campaign
Sample asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT brief ,

for a member of the Nuba tribe from Sudan, who was persecuted on account of his political opinion and tribal particular social group. This 2024 sample brief also includes arguments against the firm resettlement bar to asylum and under the 2023 Circumvention of Lawful Pathways asylum limitation rule, including exception due to family unity and language barrier to use of CBP One app.

Sample Withholding of Removal: Nicaraguan Political Case

Immigration Justice Campaign
Sample brief from a client eligible only for withholding of removal and Convention Against Torture protection.

Sample Asylum, Withholding, and CAT Brief: Feminist Political Opinion and Gender-Based Particular Social Groups

Tahirih Justice Center
Sample asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT brief, for a Peruvian Woman, who was subjected to domestic violence and persecuted on account of her gender (various particular social groups) and feminist political opinion.

Sample Asylum Brief: Particular Social Group

Tahirih Justice Center
This brief is for an asylum claim by a Guatemalan woman who was subjected to decades of domestic violence from her common-law husband, and whose daugher was subjected to sexual violence from the same perpetrator. The grounds for asylum articulated are various gender-based particular social groups including Guatemalan women, Guatemalan married women, Guatemalan women who are viewed as property by virtue of their status in a domestic relationship and who are unable to leave their domestic relationship, several family-based particular social groups, and political opinion.

Sample Asylum Brief: Particular Social Group and Political Opinion

Catholic Charities Community Services
This brief is for an asylum claim by a Honduran woman who faced death threats from a gang. The grounds for asylum articulated are a family based particular social group and political opinion.

Sample Asylum, Withholding, and CAT Brief: Particular Social Group

Immigration Justice Campaign
Sample asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT brief, for a transgender Honduran woman, based on multiple particular social groups.

Sample Convention Against Torture Brief: Transgender Mexican Woman

Immigration Justice Campaign
A sample brief from a Convention Against Torture case involving a transgender Mexican woman. This sample can be used when your client is not eligible for asylum or withholding of removal.