Asylum Declaration Drafting video
Interviews in any language become a dated, first-person declaration; every date, place and name is checked against the I-589 and the credible-fear notes, and every paragraph is read back to her before she signs. 1:17
What the film shows
Drafts the applicant's asylum declaration from interview notes in any language, for counsel
Agents transcribe the interviews in any language, keep her words beside the English, order every fragment into a chronology and draft the declaration in her voice. They check every date, place and name against her earlier statements and put each difference on a rail beside the draft; the attorney settles each one with her. Every paragraph is read back in her language, and she signs only after confirming them all.
Transcript
- Asylum Declaration Drafting turns interviews in any language into a declaration counsel can file.
- A judge may doubt an applicant over any inconsistency, even a minor one.
- Amara gave three interviews in Pular and French: six and a half hours.
- Agents ordered her words into thirty-one events and drafted nineteen paragraphs in her voice.
- The rail flags the arrest: March here, but May in the credible-fear notes.
- Yaa opens both sources, and Amara confirms: arrested in March, soldiers at the house in May.
- The paragraph is settled, and all six differences are resolved before filing.
- Every paragraph is read back in French and Pular, and Amara confirms her words.
- She signs, and ten to twenty hours of drafting become about three.
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The narration as written for the film. Captions are on the player.