Asylum Psychological Evaluations

You file Form I-589, Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal, usually within one year of your last arrival. An immigration attorney helps you prepare the declaration and evidence. Our report is one part of that evidence.

Exceptions exist for changed or extraordinary circumstances, and serious mental health conditions such as PTSD or depression can be one of them. The evaluation can document how your condition affected your ability to file on time.

Both protect people who fear persecution for the same five reasons. Refugee status is granted to people outside the United States, while asylum is requested by people already in the U.S. or at the border.

Common asylum interview questions cover your identity, your journey, what happened to you, who harmed you and why, and what you fear if you return. Trauma can make it hard to answer in order, and a psychological evaluation can explain this to the officer.

In general you cannot be returned to your home country while the case is open, and after a waiting period you may apply for a work permit. Ask your attorney how this applies to you.

Yes. Once asylum status is granted, people can usually apply for a green card one year later. An evaluation is not needed for that step, but it often helps win the asylum case itself.

It is not required. Your testimony is the core of the case. A psychological evaluation for asylum adds independent medical evidence, which helps most when trauma affects how you remember or tell your story.

Affirmative asylum is filed with USCIS by someone who is not in removal proceedings, and the interview is with an asylum officer. Defensive asylum is requested in immigration court as a defense against removal. Our evaluation supports both.

It is not legal preparation. Still, many clients say the clinical interview helps them put events in order and feel calmer before an asylum interview or credible fear interview. Your attorney prepares you for the questions.

Yes. Withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture are requested on the same Form I-589, so the clinical findings apply to all three forms of relief.

Political asylum, religious persecution, gender-based violence, domestic violence, LGBTQ+ claims and cases based on a particular social group. Each report reflects the facts of your own case.

The fee is fixed and depends on the case and how many sessions are needed. We tell you the full fee before you book, so there are no surprises later.

It depends on the case and on your filing deadline, asylum interview or court hearing date. Share that date when you reach out and we plan the interview and report around it. Expedited turnaround is available on request.

Your attorney can ask us to clarify points or address specific legal questions, and we can prepare an addendum. We do not change clinical findings to fit a case, because that would make the report less credible.

Ask your attorney to contact us. Whether a video evaluation is possible depends on the detention facility's rules for legal and clinical visits, and we confirm this before scheduling.