Asylum Resources
Asylum Resources
IGLHRC closed its longstanding asylum documentation program in mid-2007. Country-specific documentation and thematic packets produced as part of that program are now available at: www.asylumlaw.org (select “sexual orientation/sexual minorities & HIV status”). For individual assistance with asylum-related questions, please contact one of the organizations listed below.
United States of America
In San Francisco:
- Dusty Araujo, Asylum Documentation
National Asylum Partnership on Sexual Orientation
Heartland Alliance - PO Box 558, San Francisco, CA 94104
Tel: (415) 398-2759
Fax: (415) 398-4635
daraujo@heartlandalliance.org
www.immigrantjustice.org - Noemi Calonje, Project Director
National Center for Lesbian Rights NCLR / Asylum Project - Tel: 415-392-6257
calonje@nclrights.org
http://www.nclrights.org/site/PageServer?pagename=issue_immigration - The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
Asylum Program - Tel: 415-543-9444
www.lccr.com/immigration_direct_services_asylum.shtml
In New York:
- Victoria Neilson, Legal Director
Immigration Equality - Tel: 212-714-2904 x 25
legal@immigrationequality.org
www.immigrationequality.org
In Chicago:
- Jonathan Eoloff, Staff Attorney
National Asylum Partnership on Sexual Orientation
Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center, - Tel: 312-660-1364
jeoloff@heartlandalliance.org
www.immigrantjustice.org - Demark Schulze
National Immigrants Justice Center
or
Tel: 312-660-1326
Canada
- Lesbian and Gay Immigration Task Force
LEGIT-Vancouver (languages spoken: English, Spanish) - Email: vancouver@legit.ca
For additional Provinces please see:
www.legit.ca/contact.html
United Kingdom
- Jill Power
The Lesbian and Gay Asylum Team - Tel: +44 20 7654 0686
lesbianandgayasylumteam@googlemail.com - UK Lesbian & Gay Immigration Group
(Formerly: Stonewall Immigration Group) - Office +44 20 7922 7812
Information/Advice +44 20 7922 7811
Asylum Program manager: sebastian@uklgig.org.uk
info@stonewall.org.uk
www.uklgig.org.uk
Australia
- Gay and Lesbian Immigration Task Force
- Tel: +61 (02) 9380-5950
glitf@dot.net.au
www.glitf.org.au