Drafting Asylum Brief

Sample Index of Submissions

Immigration Justice Campaign
A sample index of exhibits in support of an asylum application.

Sample Asylum Brief: Particular Social Group

Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network
This brief is for an asylum claim by a Guatemalan woman who faced death threats from a gang. The grounds for asylum articulated are two particular social groups: testifying prosecutorial witnesses, and Guatemalan women.

Sample Asylum Brief: Political Opinion

University of Wisconsin Law School Immigrant Justice Clinic
A sample asylum brief. The claim involves a political dissident in Cuba who was persecuted on account of his political opinion.

Sample Asylum Brief: Political Opinion

Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative
A sample brief in a political-opinion-based asylum claim.