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  • Two Languages, One Government: What Your Notice to Appear Doesn’t Tell You

    At the Institute for Migration and Human Rights (IMHR), we recently published a full legal analysis of a pattern that shows up constantly in asylum cases but that almost nobody outside immigration law ever notices: the government describes the same years of a person’s life in two completely different ways, depending on which part of…

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  • When Life Is on Hold: Waiting for an Asylum Decision

    In recent days, new government policies have paused asylum decisions, leaving many people waiting without timelines, explanations, or clarity. Much of the conversation around these policies focuses on numbers, backlogs, or politics. Far less is said about what this waiting actually does to the people living inside it. Waiting for an asylum decision is not…

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