{"id":31,"date":"2018-01-03T15:07:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T15:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2024-11-19T21:38:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T21:38:54","slug":"useful-documents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/applying-for-asylum\/useful-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under CAT in the United States require that the application (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/files\/form\/i-589.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">form I-589<\/a>) be completed and submitted to USCIS with the appropriate attachments.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/files\/form\/i-589.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The I-589 Application for Asylum<\/a> (USCIS)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/files\/form\/i-589instr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instructions for filling out the I-589 application<\/a> (USCIS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additional Resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/en-us\/asylum-resources.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNHCR\u2019s Asylum Resources<\/a> website contains many resources and information for asylum-seekers in the United States, including asylum information, legal aid contact information, and country reports<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/pages\/attachments\/2016\/01\/14\/im_afraid_to_go_home-asylum.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Guide to Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and the Convention Against Torture<\/a> (The Florence Project)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/humanrightsfirst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Basics-of-Asylum-Factsheet-formatted.pdf\">Basics of Asylum Factsheet<\/a> (Human Rights First)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under CAT in the United States require that the application (form I-589) be completed and submitted to USCIS with the appropriate attachments. The I-589 Application for Asylum (USCIS) Instructions for filling out the I-589 application (USCIS) Additional Resources: UNHCR\u2019s Asylum Resources website contains many resources and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/1242"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}