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Make final adjudicative decisions on asylum, credible fear and reasonable fear cases. Supervise and provide oversight to a team of Asylum Officers who make complex legal adjudications, reviewing assessments for accuracy and legal sufficiency and providing applicable feedback. Prepare performance plans for team members, determining whether performance goals and core competencies are met.Coordinate the Credible Fear program, responding to inquiries, managing case review and liaising with internal and external stakeholders.Make staffing decisions in collaboration with HR after reviewing resumes and conducting candidate interviews.

Represented clients in various immigration proceedings before USCIS, US Consulates and the Immigration Courts.Prepared applications, pleadings, motions and briefs in support of family and employment-based applications and petitions.Advised clients on all forms of immigration benefits including naturalization, asylum, parole, TPS, PERM, H1B, E2, EB1 and EB5 investor visas.

Advised firm on legal sufficiency and probability of case success.Drafted briefs, pleadings and case statements for affirmative and defensive asylum cases.

Organized, scheduled and led weekly adjudicator training sessions.Developed and managed in-house training program on legal analysis, interview techniques, assessment writing and fraud detection.Provided on-going technical and administrative guidance on policies and procedures.

Advised Executive level staff on unique and politically sensitive matters specifically related to migration policies.Liaised and collaborated with internal and external stakeholders including foreign government entities.Represented DHS at meetings, technical exchanges and briefings with various government and non-governmental organizations.Conducted briefings on US-Cuba relations to American legal, education and government groups, serving as a protocol officer to visiting delegations.

Conducted in-person and telephonic interviews with non-citizens seeking protection in the US, eliciting testimony in a non-adversarial proceeding. Analyzed legal sufficiency of asylum claims and wrote eligibility determinations.

Represented clients in various immigration proceedings before USCIS and the Immigration Courts.Prepared applications, pleadings, motions and briefs in support of family-based applications and petitions.Advised clients on immigration benefits including naturalization, asylum, parole, TPS, VAWA and NACARA.