Client came to the US in 2015. He filed an asylum later that year with the help of an immigrant consultant. The Asylum Office notified him for an interview in 2018 but he did not go. He received "failure to appear warning" from the asylum office.

Client retained us in 2019 and we restarted his case. We provided more information and documents and prepared the client well for the October 2020 interview.

The asylum office provided interpreters for the interview. But the interpreters were not competent at all so there were 4 interpreters who were called to do the job. It is critical that our attorney, Steve Baughman, who speaks fluent Mandarin, caught up with many interpreter mistakes and corrected them. Otherwise the result would have been different.