Where are you going to seek asylum?
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Collect
and bring documents supporting your asylum claim.
Your major task as asylum seeker is, in your own interest,
to present your individual case in a complete, detailed and consistent
way. Documents that back up your claim, however, can be very helpful
in proving your case. Documents your should try to bring with you
include:
- Documents confirming your identity and citizenship. Passports,
licenses, work papers, birth certificates, etc. Identity is an issue
in every asylum case, and the more documents you have to prove identity,
the better.
- Documents confirming what happened to you. Arrest records,
medical records, newspaper clippings, political or religious identity
cards, pictures of injuries, and the like are all very valuable.
- Documents describing the conditions you are fleeing. While
many countries have general information about country conditions, do
not think that all officers or judges deciding on asylum claims are
well informed about the situation in your country of origin: Sometimes
they are, sometimes they are not. In order to guarantee a minimum level
of knowledge you should add to your application, the sooner the better,
documents indicating that people in your situation are in danger at
home. Keep a copy of these documents like of all other asylum procedure
documents. The first step to find adequate information is to click
on www.ecoi.net and to insert your
country in the white field on the left top. If you cannot find what
you look for, please use the asylumlaw.org
search tool. The later will search ecoi.net as well as 14 other
human rights databases.
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