Practitioners representing clients before the asylum office must be prepared for questioning on the one-year filing deadline. An asylum officer must resolve the threshold question of whether the applicant has timely filed for asylum or can establish a relevant exception to that deadline. Even the most meritorious asylum cases can be denied or referred to immigration court if a one-year filing deadline issue is present.

This resource will explain the types of questions that an applicant can expect related to the one-year filing deadline so that practitioners can best prepare their clients to answer them.