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September 19th, 2011 
Tushar Mathur Recently, an immigration consulting business in Los Angeles was charged by the authorities with immigration benefit fraud and failing to disclose their role as preparers on hundreds of asylum applications. This story may not be news for people who are familiar with immigration news. It is just another immigration fraud case, one may say. However, it offers some insights into the political asylum application process in the U.S.
The U.S. as a country of immigrants and freedom has always embraced the idea of providing protection for those who need it. It has incorporated the definition of “refugee” from the United Nations Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees in the domestic law. Simply put, a refugee is a person outside her country or last place of residence who is unable or unwilling to return to that country or place because of persecution or a well-founded fear or persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group of political opinion.
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