USCIS Posted Asylum Officer Lesson Plans

USCIS posted 2,061 pages of asylum officer lesson plans in the Electronic Reading Room. The document is titled “Legal standards governing asylum claims and issues related to the adjudication of children” but the plans include more than just documents related to minors.

Table of Contents:

• Updated Procedures for Determining Initial Jurisdiction Over UAC Asylum Applications (page 5)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on Well-Founded Fear (page 28)
• Response to Query - Offers of Firm Resettlement (page 75)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on Firm Resettlement (page 78)
• Response to Query - Harm to a Family Member or Third Party (page 123)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on Nexus - Particular Social Group (page 127)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on Definition of Persecution and Eligibility Based on Past Persecution (page 207)
• Response to Query - PSGs within the context of sexual or gender based violence against Congolese women (page 295)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on Interviewing Survivors of Torture and Other Severe Trauma (page 301)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on Interviewing - Working with an Interpreter (page 333)
• RAIO Directorate -Officer Training on Cross-Cultural Communication and Other Factors that may Impede Communication at an Interview (page 384)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on Interviewing - Eliciting Testimony (page 411)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on Interviewing - Introduction to the Non-Adversarial Interview (page 470)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on Guidance for Adjudicating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) Refugee and Asylum Claims (page 519)
• USCIS Intercountry Adoption Overview - redacted (August 12, 2013) (page 782)
• USCIS Orphan Adoption Adjudications Advanced Training - redacted (June 2013) (page 826)
• USCIS Asylum/Refugee Law - Exceptional Circumstances - redacted (October 2013) (page 874)
• USCIS Basic Refugee and Asylum Overview Instructor Guidance (July 2010) (page 919)
• USCIS International Operations Division Officer Training - Mandatory Bars and Non-waivable grounds of inadmissibility regarding I-730s - redacted (page 968)
• USCIS International Operations Division Officer Training - Analyzing the Persecutor Bar - redacted (page 1017)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on Children's Claims (page 1181)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on Evidence (page 1263)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on Researching and Using Country of Origin Information on RAIO Adjudications (page 1308)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on Decision Making (page 1351)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on Discretion (page 1404)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) and Religious Persecution (page 1470)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on Detecting Possible Victims of Trafficking (page 1524)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on Evidence (August 3, 2015) (page 1629)
• USCIS Questions and Answers: Updating Procedures for Determination of Initial Jurisdiction over Asylum Applications Filed by Unaccompanied Alien Children (June 10, 2013) (page 1674)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on Fraud in the Context of RAIO Adjudications and Overview of the Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS) Directorate (page 1678)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on Mandatory Bars to Asylum (May 9, 2013) (page 1739)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on National Security (October 26, 2015) (page 1781)
• RAIO Directorate - Officer Training on Analyzing the Persecutor Bar (April 14, 2015) (page 1883)
• Updated Procedures for Determining Initial Jurisdiction Over UAC Asylum Applications (page 1935)
• USCIS National Security Overview and CARRP Processing (May 2, 2016) (page 1992)

Note: Training materials include redactions.