Immigration Law Services » Right of Asylum
Choosing an immigration attorney in Tampa / St. Petersburg to help with Asylum cases.
Aslyum: The protection granted by a nation to a person who cannot return to their home country for fear of prosecution. Our firm has years of experience dealing with asylum cases.
An immigration lawyer at our firm can guide you in gathering the relevant documents and evidence, which can be quite an undertaking in itself. Besides your basic personal documents, you may need to provide such things as newspaper documents, medical records, police reports, or human rights reports evidencing proof of persecution and abuse. Your membership in the asylum class will also need to be verified. We can direct you or directly assist in obtaining such documents.
There are several reasons why an individual may be seeking asylum, including when facing deportation. These petitions can be based upon a variety of dangerous circumstances of the individual, including those involving religious, gender-based, political affiliations and others. These recognized legal reasons to seek asylum must be carefully and completely documented by your St. Petersburg immigration lawyer in your petition. You can seek asylum from within the U.S. or outside the U.S. At Law Office of Ellen R. Gorman, PA, we have the experience to know how to properly approach your petition.
When outside the country, you must make contact through the United States Resettlement Program (USRP) and these petitions require that you have a referral from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in most cases. For those who already reside within the country, asylum and refugee status can be sought from inside the country by your immigration lawyer at our St. Petersburg, Florida firm, but it is necessary that the petition is filed within one year of your arrival in the country. In some cases, there are circumstances that will allow an individual to apply later, but this is only addressed on a case-by-case basis, and you must prove that specific circumstances occurred that made it impossible for you to file your petition for asylum within the required one year period.