More questions asked of the activist from the DRC:

Give me your original passport, so I can hold it in my hand.

I want to know about every stamp in it. I believe the passport knows more about you, than you do.  And by the way, you agree with that, don’t you? You can’t remember all of your travels, but the passport knows?

   You applied for a visa to France ten years ago, and you were denied? Why?

Let’s see if you can repeat everything on Form I-589, without looking at it.

If your oral statements today, disagree with what you wrote, then we will spend several minutes on that. I will ask you: “why are there errors in the 589? you told me there were no errors in it; but there are?  So, instead of talking about your being tortured in prison, and being threatened, we will talk about your addresses and travel from six years ago.

And, after you make me do the dull task of forcing you to tell me your history, I will be tired and annoyed. When we finally get to your torture in prison, I will be tired, and not so interested.

You departed from your country in June 2016? for each of the sixty months before that, where did you sleep at night? where did you work?

what was your last address in your country? this means, where did you sleep at night, not where you received mail.

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Tell me all of your international travel.Tell me your employment history, for the past 15 years.    Why is the info on the visa application different? why did you say on that application that no one helped you? do you even know the visa application process? If you don’t know, why do you pretend that you do?

Have you noticed, by the way, that we have now spent 60 minutes on your history, and zero minutes on torture in prison? Are you getting tired? I am more tired than you are aren’t I? To get your visa, they asked you oral questions, face-to-face? And also, they asked you written questions, which you or someone else answered? 

In your visa application, in writing, it says you worked for the Sinther Company?

 Why does it say that? If you have not read your application in the last five years, but I read it yesterday, I have an advantage?

   can you get a copy of your visa application using a FOIA request sent to the Department of State?