Testimonials
We work closely with lawyers from around the world to figure out which questions need answers and which arguments need proof. Lawyers who defend asylum seekers combat prejudice, misinformation, and stereotyped assumptions every day. Asylos reports allow them to devote much needed time to what they do best: defending vulnerable asylum seekers.
Find out what the lawyers and caseworkers with whom we have worked say about Asylos below. If you are interested in joining us and leveraging Asylos research to defend your clients, please consult our resources page.
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“I can’t say enough how much I appreciate your project and efforts. It seems like you’re working with the best researchers and experts in the field. This information is invaluable, both thanks to the quotes and references, but also because it explains very well why there is very little information on the subject.”
“Your help is invaluable. You save us a lot of time and work as COI sources are very difficult to find in some cases… I really appreciate the reliability and reactivity of your teams. Your notes are to the point and make the case credible.”
“You go far and beyond with your research and your on the ground contacts are very valuable, providing lawyers with increased argumentation… I appreciated the objectivity of your notes. I trust Asylos because your notes are objective and impartial.”
“I consistently make use of Asylos’ expansive database and have even requested several tailored reports myself. Compiling this information on my own would require much more work than I have time for. Asylos takes the work off my hands and gives me invaluable time for meeting with vulnerable clients and preparing briefs.”
“The quality of the information and reports provided by Asylos is consistently high, and I have always found them to be incredibly responsible, responsive and willing to go the extra mile. My colleagues and I regularly rely on research and reports by Asylos to support our clients’ asylum claims.”
“I always turn to Asylos when I need to find relevant information about a country of origin that is less well-known and under-covered. The Asylos team always provides very detailed and well-sourced information that can be crucial to the case. Thank you very much for your commitment and dedicated volunteer work.”
“Asylos staff was highly professional and responsive. They reacted and responded to our call for support in spite of extremely narrow deadlines, understanding the importance of the ECtHR cases for the concrete individual but also for the EU/European future asylum and human rights legal practice. Your report helped us a lot in order to supply our observations with the appropriate sources. Without your report we would not be able to support some of our arguments in the pleadings. Besides, we couldn’t find local sources in Arabic having in mind that we couldn’t read nor speak Arabic ourselves.”
“Asylos has a reputation, which is proof of its credibility. Judges ask for Asylos’s reports copies and I always share it with them… Asylos is the perfect match between the mastery of a language and the understanding of law… Your researchers understand what I am talking about, they understand law, especially refugee law and the concept of jurisdiction. For lawyers, this is a blessing.”
“I have found the quality of research in each of the Asylos memos I have requested to be excellent. I have shared the memos with other lawyers. I am very grateful to the Asylos team for its meticulous, credible work.”
“I read Asylos COI reports all the time and they are well researched, well written and very useful. Keep doing that amazing work thanks for all the effort.”
“As a legal clinic specialised in writing asylum requests for asylum-seekers, Asylos provides our Master students from the Refugee Law Clinic at the Université Libre de Bruxelles with precious and reliable resources.”
“Asylos has assisted us with many different types of immigration applications, often family reunion applications. We frequently work with families separated by conflict, or facing persecution in their country of origin or in third countries. As we are a charity and much of our work is done without the funding of legal aid, we are unable to get specific country expert reports for many cases. In instances where in-country circumstances are relevant to the case, Asylos’ experts have provided an invaluable service of sourcing independent evidence. This assists us to evidence the Applicant’s circumstances and strengthens the cases that we represent.”
“I know I can rely on Asylos whenever I am in need of substantive information to support my clients’ claim but lack the resources and time to gather it myself.”
“Asylos’s work functions as great legal aid, especially because we do not always have the time to do the research that is necessary, so your fact finding is very appreciated and makes the claims credible.”
“Asylos’s research has been extremely helpful in supporting asylum seekers prove the merits of their claims, in particular with complex cases or where there is no legal aid available… Asylos’s researchers have regional expertise and language skills and are thus in a great position to access information on a range of different cases.”
“The research I requested from Asylos provided me with new evidence, which helped me greatly to establish my client’s risk of persecution.”
“Asylos has been and continues to be a fantastic resource for us. Most of our work is legally aided, so we are very grateful to have a service which provides an open source of information to assist with our case preparation. The team at Asylos is helpful, friendly and very capable and the work is of a very high standard. As we receive much of our funding for our legal services through Legal Aid, we are often restricted by the time we can put into country information research. Asylos has helped us bridge the gap and has provided in-depth research pieces on countries across the globe. At times, this has contributed greatly to obtaining a successful outcome for the individuals we are working with. We are sincerely grateful to Asylos for the research assistance provided and will continue to recommend their resources to other lawyers and representatives working in this field.”