At the request of the Board of Immigration Appeals, IRLI has filed an important brief arguing that U.S. asylum and refugee law does not extend to most claims of persecution based on acts of domestic violence committed by private persons in an overseas household.

IRLI filed the amicus brief on October 18, 2011 on behalf of the Federation for American Immigration Reform.  FAIR is a longtime critic of federal government failure to protect the asylum system against abusive or fraudulent claims by aliens who seek to bypass the lengthy application procedures required for persons who seek to immigrate to the United States for economic or personal advantage.