Immigration Polygraph Workshops & Seminars

Next 2010 Immigration Polygraph Seminars in-person schedule to be posted here soon.
2010 Immigration Polygraph in-person seminar copyrighted material handouts typically include (all produced and taught by Immigration Polygraph expert John Grogan of www.ImmigrationPolygraph.com for PEOA):

IMMIGRATION/ASYLUM/REFUGEE POLYGRAPHS

Polygraph for
Immigration / Asylum / Refugee applicants

Information on the US Asylum
Program

Asylum polygraph information

Acronyms involved
with
Immigration/Asylum/Refugee matters
(Know what these initials stand
for, or risk looking
uninformed when dealing with immigration
attorneys!)

The US Government’s definition of Asylum

The required
elements of Asylum

What determines a ‘Well-Founded Fear’?

What is
‘Persecution’?

The REAL ID Act of 2005

The REAL ID Act of
2005:
Corroborating Evidence
“ . . . . may require other evidence
to
corroborate otherwise credible testimony”

Key laws involving
Asylum

What is a ‘Merits Hearing’?

Definition of Marriage
Immigration Fraud

Sample: an actual Asylum Hearing appointment
letter

Affidavit of Support (19 pages)

VAWA: Violence Against
Women Act
(increasingly involved in immigration matters)

Websites of
government agencies
connected to immigration/asylum

Definition of
Amnesty

Amnesty information

The major sources of
evidence

Definition of ‘Expert Witness’

Testifying in court as a
Polygraph Expert

Other types of Immigration-related
hearings

Glossary of Immigration terms

More asylum polygraph
information

Bars to Asylum
(no exceptions:
if any of these apply
to an applicant,
asylum will not be granted)

A potential bar to
asylum,
and how to deal with it:
If applicant was a member of
the
military in his homeland.
(As a military member, he may be
considered to
be a ‘persecutor’ himself)


Ineligibility

Inadmissibility



IRCA: Immigration Reform and Control Act



LIFE: Legal Immigration and Family Equity Act



News story, misconduct and
wrongly deporting/denying

Typical technique used, asylum polygraph
examination

Report example, asylum polygraph examination

Example:

declaration, under penalty of perjury
(when submitting a polygraph report
into court evidence;
often done on ‘pleading –numbered- paper’)

Sample
sheet: pleading paper
(you can photocopy)

News story involving
immigration and polygraph

Example:
website of an Immigration/Asylum
polygraph specialist

Using an Interpreter
(Federal
training)

Using an Interpreter
(additional Federal
training)

Federal Rules of Evidence
(Article VII: Opinions and Expert
Testimony)

Federal Rule of Evidence 702
(Testimony by Experts:
qualified by knowledge,
skill, experience, training, or
education)

Immigration/Asylum textbooks
(build your library)


and more!


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