Refugee and humanitarian matters

Protection work runs through the same pipeline as employment petitions, but what Petria checks and what it researches are different, and the jurisdiction changes the vocabulary.

In the US, a refugee matter is the asylum pathway and appears as I-589. In Canada, the same matter type is a refugee claim and appears as the Basis of Claim. The US humanitarian lane also covers VAWA self-petitions, special immigrant juvenile matters, U and T visa petitions, I-730 relative petitions, and special immigrant visa work.

On these matters Petria runs a research step that pulls country conditions material: the IRB National Documentation Packages for Canadian claims and US State Department country conditions for US ones. That produces a refugee research report as a separate deliverable. Like the LMIA research step, it is not fatal if it fails, so a missing research report does not mean the job failed.

The readiness and gap checks work off protection-specific sections rather than a criteria catalog. In Canada those are Convention ground nexus, the chronology and corroboration of the events claimed, state protection, internal flight alternative where it is raised, country conditions aligned with the NDP, and identity and credibility consistency against the claim form. In the US they are past persecution or well-founded fear, nexus to a protected ground, the particular social group definition where one is asserted, government acquiescence or inability to protect, supporting country conditions, and corroboration beyond the applicant's own declaration.

Pre-filing gap analysis is named for the forum. A Canadian claim gets a report anticipating RPD or RAD procedural direction or a request for further evidence, not a USCIS-style RFE. A US asylum matter gets an RFE report. Both are Pro and Enterprise.

Two practical points for uploads. Corroboration is the section most often thin, so label the country conditions material, identity documents, and any third-party evidence clearly enough that the check can find them. And the declaration is not corroboration of itself, which is why it appears as its own gap line rather than as support.

Filing mode on US self-petition protection matters offers pro se or counsel, with no employer option.