Review App Preliminary Qs

Question 1

How are you feeling?

Question 2

Is there anything going on that may affect your ability to understand or answer my question today?

Question 3

Has a medical professional ever diagnosed you with memory problems? Due to trauma?

Question 4

Are able to understand the Interpreter?

Question 5

Can you understand me?

Question 6

Do you feel you are fluent enough in English to proceed with Interview in English?

Question 7

Why did you decide to move to [city state] where you currently live?

Question 8

When and how did you find out about the asylum process?

Question 9

When did you apply for asylum?

Question 10

Did anyone help you prepare your asylum application?

Question 11

Did you pay someone?

Question 12

How did you find that person? What exactly did they do to help you prepare it?

Question 13

When did you meet your attorney?

Question 14

Do you want to have your attorney present at your interview today?

Question 15

Did your attorney help you prepare your asylum application? What specifically did you attorney do to help you with your asylum application?

Question 16

Does your attorney speak your native language? How did you communicate?

Question 17

Did someone read back to you in your native language all the information provided in your asylum application before it was submitted?

Question 18

When they read back the information to you in your native language was there any incorrect or missing information?

Question 19

Are you confident now that the information in your application is true and correct?

Question 20

Are there any changes that you know of right now that you need to make to your application?

Question 21

When was the last time you reviewed your application?

Question 22

Did anyone help you prepare your personal statement/declaration that you submitted with your application materials? Explain your story in written format

Question 23

If yes

Answer 23

who helped you?

Question 24

What did they do to help you?

Question 25

Did you look at any samples of declarations before you wrote your personal statement? models

Answer 25

templates

Question 26

Did you write the personal statement on your own? Is it written in your own words?

Question 27

Did anyone suggest edits to your personal statement?

Question 28

Is all the information provided in your personal statement true and correct?

Question 29

Did you ever apply to extend or change the status that you had when you entered the U.S.?

Question 30

if on a visa

Answer 30

and if extended or changed→ it matters if application is denied in terms of what happens next.

Question 31

What’s the highest level of education you completed?

Question 32

What job did you do in your home country?

Question 33

Do you have any other documents that you want to provide me today that have not already been submitted?

Question 34

What is your full name?

Question 35

Have you ever used another name

Answer 35

including a maiden name or a nickname?

Question 36

What is your date of birth?

Question 37

In what city and country were you born?

Question 38

Are you a citizen of (country of origin]?

Question 39

Have you ever had citizenship or any other long-term legal status in any other country?

Question 40

What is your race?

Question 41

Are you religious

Answer 41

and if so

Question 42

What is your current address?

Question 43

Can you receive mail at this address?

Question 44

In what month and year did you begin living at this address?

Question 45

What was your last address in your home country?

Question 46

On what date did you LAST leave your home country?

Question 47

On what date did you MOST RECENTLY ENTER the US?

Question 48

What was your legal status when you most recently entered the US

Question 49

How many times

Answer 49

in total

Question 50

To which countries

Answer 50

other than the US

Question 51

Why did you travel to those countries?

Question 52

What are your parent’s names?

Question 53

In what city and country do your parents live?

Question 54

How many siblings do you have?

Question 55

What are the names of your siblings?

Question 56

Where do your siblings live?

Question 57

Which elementary

Answer 57

middle

Question 58

For each of those institutions

Answer 58

in what month and year did you begin studying there and in what month and year did you finish?

Question 59

Did you attend university and if so

Answer 59

what’s the name of it?

Question 60

In what month and year did you begin studying there and in what month and year did you finish?

Question 61

What did you study at the university?

Question 62

Did you graduate with a degree from university?

Question 63

What is your native language?

Question 64

Do you speak other languages fluently

Answer 64

and if so

Question 65

Are you married?

Question 66

Have you ever been married before?

Question 67

If you are currently married

Answer 67

when did you get married?

Question 68

What is the full name of your spouse?

Question 69

Do you want your spouse to be included as a dependent in your asylum claim?

Question 70

Do you have children?

Question 71

How many children do you have?

Question 72

What are their names?

Question 73

When were they born?

Question 74

Do you want your children to be included as dependents in your asylum claim?

Question 75

Did your spouse and children enter the United States with you at the same time

Answer 75

in the same place and with the same immigration status?

Question 76

Have you ever lied or in any way misrepresented anything to a US Immigration Officer

Answer 76

whether in writing or orally?