Empowerment & Legal Orientation
The Asylum Filing Survival Kit
YOU DON’T HAVE TO FIGURE THIS OUT ALONE.
You’re carrying a story that could change the course of your life — and one confusing form standing between you and safety.
GET THE SURVIVAL KITOne-time purchase. Lifetime access.
Educational information, not legal advice.
- 01I-589 Preparation Workbook
- 02Evidence Collection Checklist
- 03Country Conditions Research Guide
- 04Work Permit Roadmap
- 05Application Filing Instructions
Know what to do next,
from Form I-589 through filing.
The Asylum Filing Survival Kit gives you a practical system for working through Form I-589, gathering evidence, researching country conditions, understanding the work-permit timeline, and organizing your filing package.
Get the Survival KitOne payment. Lifetime access.
Educational information, not legal advice.
You Shouldn’t Have to Do This Alone
You’ve already survived what brought you here. Now you’re staring at a government form that decides what happens next — for you, and maybe for your children too — and no one handed you a manual.
Maybe you’ve spent nights searching the internet for answers that contradict each other. Maybe you’ve felt that tight, sinking fear of what if I get this wrong and don’t even know it. Maybe you’ve wondered if you’re the only one who feels this lost.
You’re not. And this isn’t a process you have to guess your way through.
Get the Survival KitYour Future Is Too Important to Leave to Chance
Every day, people submit asylum applications feeling uncertain about whether they’ve done everything correctly — not because they didn’t try hard enough, but because no one showed them how.
Don’t let fear, confusion, or an avoidable mistake become one more obstacle standing between you and the life you’re trying to build.
In most cases, you have one year from your arrival to file — this isn’t something you have unlimited time to figure out alone.
Inside the kit
Five core resources. One clear filing roadmap.
Each resource handles a different part of the preparation process, so you can work through the filing in order instead of piecing information together from different sources.
I-589 Preparation Workbook
Walk through creating your USCIS online account, completing the application, organizing your information, and preparing the filing.
The filing process
Form I-589 is only one part of the filing.
You also need to know what evidence supports the facts in your application, where country-conditions research fits, how to keep your information organized, what happens after filing, and how to prepare the final package.
The Survival Kit puts those tasks into a clear sequence.
- 01Prepare I-589
- 02Gather evidence
- 03Research country conditions
- 04Organize the filing
- 05Understand what happens next
The cost of guided preparation
What can this kind of preparation cost with an attorney?
Immigration attorneys bill for the time spent reviewing forms, planning evidence, organizing a filing and checking the work before submission. Based on an estimated 7–15 hours at $300–$400 per hour, comparable attorney-guided preparation can total approximately:
Estimated time
7–15 hours
At $300–$400 per hour
Attorney-guided preparation
$2,400–$5,200
Preparation task
Estimated attorney equivalent
I-589 preparation and review
$900β$2,000
Evidence strategy and review
$600β$1,200
Work-permit / EAD guidance
$300β$600
Case-file organization and pre-submission review
$300β$800
Pre-filing quality-control review
$300β$600
Attorney fees vary by lawyer, location, case and scope of representation. These figures are an educational comparison based on estimated attorney time and are not a legal-fee quote.
Get the Survival KitBuilt for people preparing their own asylum filing.
Good fit if
- 01You are preparing your own asylum application.
- 02You want a clear structure for Form I-589, evidence and filing.
- 03You want practical worksheets and checklists rather than more general information.
- 04You prefer to work through the preparation at your own pace.
Important to know
- This is educational material, not legal advice.
- Purchasing the Kit does not create an attorney-client relationship.
- The Kit does not guarantee approval or any immigration outcome.
- It is not designed to replace individualized legal representation.
Created by CIELO
Built from real immigration practice. Written so you can use it.
CIELO was created to make high-quality immigration education more accessible to people preparing their cases without full legal representation.
Attorney Rosina C. Stambaugh has represented clients before the Department of Homeland Security (USCIS), the Department of State, in immigration court, before the Board of Immigration Appeals and before the Circuit Court, as well as in criminal matters.
The materials inside CIELO translate practical preparation steps used in immigration practice into a format self-filers can work through on their own.
- 2019β2026Selected to the Pennsylvania Rising Stars list by Super Lawyers
- 2022Immigration Law Pro Bono Award, Pennsylvania Bar Association
- 2020Pro Bono Attorney of the Year, Pennsylvania Bar Association
- MemberAmerican Immigration Lawyers Association
One payment · Lifetime access
Put your asylum filing roadmap in one place.
Get the tools to work through Form I-589, evidence, country conditions, filing organization and the post-filing timeline in a clear sequence.
- 01I-589 Preparation Workbook
- 02Evidence Collection Checklist
- 03Country Conditions Research Guide
- 04Work Permit Roadmap
- 05Application Filing Instructions
Educational information, not legal advice.
No immigration outcome is promised or implied.
Questions before you start?
Because Too Much Is at Stake to Go It Alone.
People submit asylum applications every day wondering whether they missed something important, not because they did not care enough, but because no one gave them a clear system to follow.
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