What is the time commitment in order to represent an asylum seeker?
Many of the Project’s asylum cases are affirmative cases. The applicant is submitting an asylum application to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. First-time attorneys estimate that they spend 80 to 250 hours on the case. There is no INS deadline for the submission of the application other than the regulatory one-year filing deadline, although applicants are anxious to file their cases.
