If you are applying for asylum in the United States, we highly recommend that you hire an asylum expert witness to help you establish that you have a well-founded fear of persecution in your country of origin. Choose an asylum expert witness with extensive knowledge of the country from which you fear persecution. The expert should study your application for asylum, and be able to inform the USCIS officer or the Immigration Judge as to whether your fear of persecution is well-founded. The asylum expert witness should provide a written opinion concerning your case. If you are in Immigration Court, the witness should be available to testify under oath about your asylum application. Your attorney will direct questions to the expert witness and the government attorney will cross examine the witness. Sometimes, the Immigration Judge will ask the expert witness questions. This testimony may be very helpful in dispelling any doubts that the government attorney and the Immigration Judge may have about your asylum application. For example, consider the case of an Indonesian man who was a Christian and of Chinese descent. He applied for asylum based on religious persecution before an Immigration Judge in San Francisco. I remember the Judge telling us before the hearing that she had never granted anyone from Indonesia asylum based on religious persecution. She said that although she believed that Christians were discriminated against in that country, she did not think that they were persecuted. However, the testimony of our expert witness changed her mind and she granted our client's asylum application.

Afghanistan	Equatorial Guinea	Macedonia	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Albania	Eritrea	Madagascar	Samoa
Algeria	Estonia	Malawi	San Marino
American Samoa	Ethiopia	Malaysia	Sao Tome and Principe
Andorra	Faroe Islands	Maldives	Saudi Arabia
Angola	Fiji	Mali	Senegal
Anguilla	Finland	Malta	Serbia
Antigua and Barbuda	France	Marshall Island	Seychelles
Argentina	French Guiana	Martinique	Sierra Leone
Armenia	French Polynesia	Mauritania	Singapore
Aruba	Gabon	Mauritius	Slovakia
Australia	Gambia	Mexico	Slovenia
Austria	Georgia	Micronesia	Solomon Islands
Azerbaijan	Germany	Moldova	Somalia
Bahrain	Ghana	Monaco	South Africa
Bangladesh	Gibraltar	Mongolia	South Korea
Barbados	Greece	Montenegro	South Sudan
Belarus	Greenland	Montserrat	Spain
Belgium	Grenada	Morocco	Sri Lanka
Belize	Guadeloupe	Mozambique	Sudan
Benin	Guam	Myanmar	Suriname
Bermuda	Guatemala	Namibia	Swaziland
Bhutan	Guinea	Nauru	Sweden
Bolivia	Guinea-Bissau	Nepal	Switzerland
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Guyana	Netherlands	Syria
Botswana	Haiti	Netherlands Antilles	Taiwan
Brazil	Honduras	New Caledonia	Tajikistan
British Virgin Islands	Hungary	New Zealand	Tanzania
Brunei	Iceland	Nicaragua	Thailand
Bulgaria	India	Niger	Tibet
Burkina Faso	Indonesia	Nigeria	Timor-Leste
Burundi	Iran	Niue	Togo
Cambodia	Iraq	Norfolk Island	Tokelau
Cameroon	Ireland	North Korea	Tonga
Canada	Isle of Man	Northern Mariana Islands	Trinidad and Tobago
Cape Verde	Israel	Norway	Tunisia
Cayman Islands	Italy	Oman	Turkey
Central African Republic	Ivory Coast	Pakistan	Turkmenistan
Chad	Jamaica	Palau	Turks and Caicos Islands
Chile	Japan	Palestinian Territory	Tuvalu
China	Jersey	Panama	U.S. Virgin Islands
Colombia	Jordan	Papua New Guinea	Uganda
Comoros	Kazakhstan	Paraguay	Ukraine
Congo (Brazzaville)	Kenya	Peru	United Arab Emirates
Congo (Kinshasa)	Kiribati	Philippines	United Kingdom
Cook Islands	Kosovo	Pitcairn	United States
Costa Rica	Kuwait	Poland	United States Minor Outlying Islands
Croatia	Kyrgyzstan	Portugal	Uruguay
Cuba	Laos	Puerto Rico	Uzbekistan
Cyprus	Latvia	Qatar	Vanuatu
Czech Republic	Lebanon	Reunion	Venezuela
Denmark	Lesotho	Romania	Vietnam
Djibouti	Liberia	Russia	Wallis and Futuna
Dominica	Libya	Rwanda	Western Sahara
Dominican Republic	Liechtenstein	Saint Helena	Yemen
Ecuador	Lithuania	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Zambia
Egypt	Luxembourg	Saint Lucia	Zimbabwe
El Salvador	Macao S.A.R., China	Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Asylum Expert Witness Links

The Importance of Expert Witnesses
Find Asylum Expert Witnesses
Request Expert Consultation for Asylum Case (Center for Gender and Refugee Studies)
Expert Witnesses Asylum – ALM Experts
Asylum Expert Witnesses – Forensis Group