Asylum: Fleeing Persecution & Danger!

Asylum/Refugees – Initial Application / Defense to Deportation

ASYLUM Applications: Persecution in a foreign country provides the basis for obtaining legal status in the United States. IBLF has been successful in representing clients facing persecution in the their home countries, and has developed special expertise with respect to applicants or refugees from Ethiopia, Cameroons, Rwanda, Congo, Sri Lanka, India, Tanzania, India, Bangladesh, Albania, El Salvador, Honduras, Venezuela, and countries in Eastern Europe.

Asylum must be filed within a year of arrival in the United States, and there are often issues that the manner of entry, evidence of persecution, and identity which affect the success of such applications.

IBLF works with potential asylees both in the initial interview with an Asylum field office, or in litigation in Immigration Court (also known as defensive asylum).

To Be Contacted for an Appointment or Consultation with respect to ASYLUM, please compete and submit the following:

Steffanie J. Lewis is a founding attorney, vice president and secretary of IBLF and, since 1999. She is counsel to several corporations, including an international trade association, an international foundation, an international computer demographic marketing corporation, a U.S. airline with international routes, an international artist & company, a national medical laboratory, a national self defense association, and numerous individuals with claims in products liability, aviation and real estate contract, medical malpractice, and numerous criminal offenses.

In addition to her corporate role, Ms. Lewis supervises all immigration work, representing clients in Immigration Court and multiple Federal circuits, most actively in the Fourth Circuit dealing with the immigration implications of fraud, criminal matters, due process, and statute interpretation.

Albert Z. Lewis is the managing attorney of the law firm, responsible for the administration, and service for the various technologies being used.

Mr. Lewis’s particular specialties are the electronic filing done with the USCIS, as well as through the ECF systems for the US District Courts, as well as EDGAR, the computer filing system for the US Securities and Exchange Commission. He also appears regularly in Immigration Court, supervises all aspects of family-related immigration filings, and has written numerous appeal briefs for immigration and other appeals. He has represented children and adults under the Criminal Justice Act, through programs at the DC Superior Criminal Court as well as the DC Counsel for Child Abuse and Neglect.