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AILA's Asylum Primer provides practical, interpretive guidance of the entire asylum process. Intended for everyone from attorneys to government officials, from law professors to law students, from nonprofit organizations to asylum seekers themselves, AILA's Asylum Primer will help you understand and resolve critical asylum issues and provide answers to help you through the asylum process--from the first meeting until you close the case.

The completely updated fifth edition of the Primer will address:

• one-year deadline -- federal court jurisdiction to review
• REAL ID and its impact on asylum cases
• material support bars
• new BIA interpretations of "particular social group"
• past FGM as a basis for asylum

Class adoption--The Asylum Primer is an excellent teaching tool for law schools and asylum law clinics. Contact AILA Publications for information on discounts for class adopted texts.

AILA's Asylum Primer, Fifth Edition will provide a firm background to help you tackle the basic, as well as complex, asylum issues.

The author, Regina Germain, is a veteran asylum attorney and former Senior Legal Counselor of the Washington Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She has taught asylum law and practice at the Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Denver College of Law. She is currently the Legal Director of the Rocky Mountain Survivors Center in Denver, Colorado. She has also worked as an attorney for the Central American Refugee Center in Houston, Texas, and the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project in Florence, Arizona. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and holds an LL.M. in Advocacy from the Georgetown University Law Center.

AILA's Asylum Primer, a comprehensive and accessible guidebook providing interpretive guidance on representing asylum seekers--from the initial interview to the final approval.
[ISBN 978-1-57370-219-5/Soft Cover]

AILA's Asylum Primer, is also available electronically on AILALink.


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