My Asylum was Denied by a judge 2026 (I am hopeless)
This is a long story I’ll ask for your patience, thank you
My brother and I migrated from a Latin American country to the United States seeking asylum, we enter the USA in 2018, at the time we were minors 9 and 11 years of age, we hire a lawyer soon after, but this lawyer mislead my mom. The lawyer lie about filing our application and had my mom with lies until she got caught, fast forward, during the pandemic it was hard to find a good lawyer that we trust, the pandemic hit us hard economically, but we found a lawyer and we filed during 2023 since our first court that was in 2020 got delayed by four years, in 2024 we had our first court hearing and then in 2025 we had another meeting via zoom, our last hearing was scheduled in May of 2026.
My asylum was denied, the bases of the asylum were an incident that happen in 2012 , my dad was a Police officer who was brutally murdered and torture, my family receive death threats and our house was vandalized, we had to scape, the government pretty much never did anything and they never caught the gang members who were threatening my family, My brother and I hide in a village with my aunt from my mom side, for years we lived in fear until we came to the USA.
My dad side of the family migrated 2013 and they all were grated asylum, I don’t know why they didn’t bring us with them at the time.
The judge denied our case, my testimony was not found false, the one year bar wasn’t applicable for extraordinary circumstances, but even after all that and the evidence we just didn’t qualify for asylum. We have the opportunity to appeal but I know is really hard to win an appeal, the only probability left it would be leaving, I don’t have anything in my home country to look forward only sad memories.
Throughout this 8 years of process, I build my life in a place of many opportunities that I never thought of having, I have my family and friends here, if my asylum was granted I was going to join the Air Force to pay my respects and defend the nation that gave me safety, I plan for my education but it seems that nothing matters anymore, all is gone.
Thank you everyone for reading, please don’t hesitate to leave advice for what would be the best plan for me to follow next. I know appealing is the only way but I know is just a matter of time for my departure.