Political Asylum Research and Documentation Service (PARDS)

About

Since its founding in 1993, PARDS has assisted immigration attorneys and applicants for asylum, withholding of removal, relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT), suspension of deportation, and cancellation of Removal to discern the meritorious nature of their claims, and document the authenticity of those found to have merit by country-specific experts.



Professional Services







Petitioner Interviews




Technical Advice regarding Claim Preparation




Documentation: Country- and Issue-Specific




Expert Search: Regionalists, Country- and Issue-Specific




Foreign Government Agency and Non-Government Organization Issued Document Authentication




Pre-Filing Claim Evaluation (merit assessment)




Post-Filing Claim Evaluation (merit assessment)




Country-Specific (Political Risk and Economic) Assessments




Report-Specific Source and Reliability Assessments of the Department of State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, International Religious Freedom Reports, Profiles of Asylum Claims and Country Conditions Reports, and Issue Papers. Objective: Provide the discerning consumer with an objective and authoritatively accurate corrective lens which cuts through the rhetorical gymnastics, illuminates the profound absence of internationally known and respected sources, exposes uncorroborated assertions, distortions written into, significant omissions edited out, and internal inconsistencies.




Translation




Foreign Legal Research




Lawyer Referrals




Cancellation of Removal (Extreme Hardship)
Discern and Document the Quality and Availability of:


Country- and Pathology-Specific Health Care




Primary and Secondary Education




Profession-Specific Employment Opportunities,




and approximately 200 other quality of life factors







Highly detailed, report-specific Reliability Assessments of 'Reports of Investigation,' both prepared and peddled by Forensics Document Laboratory (FDL) and Regional USCIS Document Examiners, and Fraud Prevention Investigators operating out of U.S. Embassies and Consulates abroad. Diligent analysis of more than one hundred Reports of Investigation have revealed, among other things, an immutable pattern of ethically challenged Trial Attorneys soliciting unfounded findings of document fraud, both from the FDL and Fraud Prevention Investigators abroad, ethically challenged immigration judges encouraging and in some cases insisting upon their solicitation, albeit they knew, and/or should have known them to be inherently inaccurate and unreliable, and Forensics Document Examiners and Fraud Prevention Investigators fabricating unfounded findings of document fraud in an effort to undermine petitioner credibility, facilitate the denial of otherwise meritorious claims, and justify an order of deportation and eventual refoulement to the petitioner's country of origin.