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U.S. asylum and refugee information is spread across many government pages, court systems, forms, notices, and legal resources. This navigator gives you a simpler starting point and links you back to the official sources.

Information only - not legal advice.US Asylum Help is not a law firm and does not tell you what you should file, predict a case outcome, or replace an attorney or DOJ-accredited representative.
Something urgent happened?

Missed a hearing, received an order, moved, facing a court closure, detention, or appointment problem?

Use the Urgent Situation Center to go directly to current EOIR, USCIS, ICE, and qualified legal-help resources.

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Where are you in the process?

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You can change your selection at any time. Your choice stays only on this page and is not saved to an account.

No private information is required.

Select one of the options above to see a short set of starting points and official resources.

Something urgent happened?

Missed a hearing, received an order, moved, facing a court closure, detention, or appointment problem?

Use the Urgent Situation Center to go directly to current EOIR, USCIS, ICE, and qualified legal-help resources.

Open Urgent Help
Need an official case system?

Open USCIS, EOIR, and ICE tools without giving your case number to us.

Use our privacy-first directory to go directly to government case status, court, processing-time, address, and detention tools.

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Something urgent happened?

Missed a hearing, received an order, moved, facing a court closure, detention, or appointment problem?

Use the Urgent Situation Center to go directly to current EOIR, USCIS, ICE, and qualified legal-help resources.

Open Urgent Help
Free preparation tools

Build a timeline, evidence inventory, missing-evidence log, witness list, and exhibit index.

The toolkit works in your browser and does not send your entries to our server.

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Something urgent happened?

Missed a hearing, received an order, moved, facing a court closure, detention, or appointment problem?

Use the Urgent Situation Center to go directly to current EOIR, USCIS, ICE, and qualified legal-help resources.

Open Urgent Help
Refugee resources

Already admitted to the United States as a refugee?

Find state resettlement resources, benefits information, family links, permanent-residence information, travel resources, and document help.

Open Refugee Center
Need qualified legal help?

Find free, pro bono, accredited, and attorney resources from one starting point.

Use official EOIR directories first, learn who is authorized to represent people, check practitioner discipline, and review scam warnings.

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Something urgent happened?

Missed a hearing, received an order, moved, facing a court closure, detention, or appointment problem?

Use the Urgent Situation Center to go directly to current EOIR, USCIS, ICE, and qualified legal-help resources.

Open Urgent Help
Free preparation tools

Build a timeline, evidence inventory, missing-evidence log, witness list, and exhibit index.

The toolkit works in your browser and does not send your entries to our server.

Open Free Evidence Toolkit
Something urgent happened?

Missed a hearing, received an order, moved, facing a court closure, detention, or appointment problem?

Use the Urgent Situation Center to go directly to current EOIR, USCIS, ICE, and qualified legal-help resources.

Open Urgent Help
Refugee resources

Already admitted to the United States as a refugee?

Find state resettlement resources, benefits information, family links, permanent-residence information, travel resources, and document help.

Open Refugee Center
Privacy-first navigation

You do not need to tell us your private case story.

This navigator does not ask for your A-number, receipt number, date of birth, address, country-specific story, or documents. When an official government tool needs private information, the link takes you to that official website instead of collecting it here.