UWS Legal Clinic Helps Asylum Seekers Navigate Difficult Process

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY – Applying for asylum isn’t easy: the application is difficult to navigate, dense, and demanding, especially for those whose native language isn’t English. And the stakes couldn’t be higher: if an application is denied, asylum seekers face the immediate possibility of being sent back to the very dangers they fled. “Every time somebody finishes an application, the supervising attorney announces it to the room and we all clap,” explained Sherri Levine, program manager at the Asylum Support Clinic (ASC), a volunteer-driven pro se legal clinic located...