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Scenario

How to keep fighting when the system repeatedly breaks your hope

The judge denied my asylum case and my lawyer says we can appeal but I am so tired of hoping and having it crushed that I just want to disappear.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Repeated legal defeats can destroy the capacity to envision a future, leaving people in existential despair.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Refugee and immigration justice?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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