Polygraph customers: if your chosen examiner has only an antique polygraph, RUN!

Polygraph customers: if your chosen examiner has only an antique polygraph, RUN!

Buyer beware - INSIST on a computer polygraph - here's what you need to know:

--From the 1950s to the 1980s, polygraph examiners used the old-fashioned polygraph instruments, which were nothing but a roll of chart paper and 4 moving pens.

--Each test produced more than 20 feet of 4 wiggly lines, approximately 120 small body-reaction changes to each be hand-measured by the examiner

--In the early 1990s, about 20 years ago, computerized polygraph instruments arrived. No ink or paper problems, self-scoring, and far more accurate!

--Almost no real examiner nowadays uses an old antique, but there are a few part-timers that will use them instead of the proper equipment, hoping that the untrained public might not know the difference!

--The following are secrets that part-timers who can only afford the old antique analog polygraph instruments ($200 to buy one on eBay, since virtually all professionals of the past 20 years have dumped them and instead use $5000 computer polygraphs) DON'T want you to know:

1. On the antiques, the examiner has to assign this point system to every body response on a chart, 40 responses on every chart of a 3-chart exam, so 120 slow hand-scorings total: +1, +2, +3, or -1, -2, -3. This rigid scoring is why there are so many final scores of 'Inconclusive' (Inconclusive= maybe lie, maybe truth, can't decide, too bad for the customer) when using the antiques.

2. Computerized models score body responses far more exacting, assigning fractional & more-exacting points such as '1.7' or '2.6' to each of those 120 body response reactions to questions; those fractional differences are very critical when added up using a final scoring system such as the '-7 to +7 System' used by both types.

3. Plus, when the computer does the scoring, there are no personal 'helps' such as being too easy or too hard, and also: nothing can be missed.

The bottom line: if an examiner can not afford modern equipment, not wanting to invest in the equipment best for his/her clients, that is a sign that you should call the next examiner.

SOURCE: John Grogan, Polygraph Instructor, Los Angeles/Atlanta/New York, AmericanPolygraphAcademy.com

How clients of immigration and asylum attorneys can greatly benefit from using polygraph lie-detection

See www.AsylumPolygraph.com

Immigration Polygraph Workshops and Seminars

Next 2010 Immigration Polygraph Seminars in-person schedule to be
posted here soon.


2010 Immigration Polygraph in-person seminar copyrighted material handouts typically include (all produced and taught by Immigration Polygraph expert John Grogan of www.ImmigrationPolygraph.com for PEOA):

IMMIGRATION/ASYLUM/REFUGEE POLYGRAPHS

Polygraph for
Immigration / Asylum / Refugee applicants

Information on the US Asylum
Program

Asylum polygraph information

Acronyms involved
with
Immigration/Asylum/Refugee matters
(Know what these initials stand
for, or risk looking uninformed when dealing with immigration
attorneys!)

The US Government’s definition of Asylum

The required
elements of Asylum

What determines a ‘Well-Founded Fear’?

What is
‘Persecution’?

The REAL ID Act of 2005

The REAL ID Act of
2005:
Corroborating Evidence
“ . . . . may require other evidence
to
corroborate otherwise credible testimony”

Key laws involving
Asylum

What is a ‘Merits Hearing’?

Definition of Marriage
Immigration Fraud

Sample: an actual Asylum Hearing appointment
letter

Affidavit of Support (19 pages)

VAWA: Violence Against
Women Act
(increasingly involved in immigration matters)

Websites of
government agencies
connected to immigration/asylum

Definition of
Amnesty

Amnesty information

The major sources of
evidence

Definition of ‘Expert Witness’

Testifying in court as a
Polygraph Expert

Other types of Immigration-related
hearings

Glossary of Immigration terms

More asylum polygraph
information

Bars to Asylum
(no exceptions:
if any of these apply
to an applicant,
asylum will not be granted)

A potential bar to
asylum,
and how to deal with it:
If applicant was a member of
the
military in his homeland.
(As a military member, he may be
considered to
be a ‘persecutor’ himself)


Ineligibility

Inadmissibility



IRCA: Immigration Reform and Control Act



LIFE: Legal Immigration and Family Equity Act



News story, misconduct and
wrongly deporting/denying

Typical technique used, asylum polygraph
examination

Report example, asylum polygraph examination

Example:

declaration, under penalty of perjury
(when submitting a polygraph report
into court evidence;
often done on ‘pleading –numbered- paper’)

Sample
sheet: pleading paper
(you can photocopy)

News story involving
immigration and polygraph

Example:
website of an Immigration/Asylum
polygraph specialist

Using an Interpreter
(Federal
training)

Using an Interpreter
(additional Federal
training)

Federal Rules of Evidence
(Article VII: Opinions and Expert
Testimony)

Federal Rule of Evidence 702
(Testimony by Experts:
qualified by knowledge,
skill, experience, training, or
education)

Immigration/Asylum textbooks
(build your library)


and more!


--- Dates and specifications are subject to
change---

Polygraph Exams for Immigration & Asylum cases

Lie-detection testing for immigration or asylum cases is used nationwide for Federal Immigration Court hearings; Federal immigration judges and Hearing Officers are typically very accepting of polygraph reports as supporting evidence thanks to the Federal government being the biggest users themselves of polygraph! Since immigration & asylum applicants have the 'burden of proof' in these court matters, a polygraph exam can cut through years of red-tape and delays.

Renowned lie-detection expert John Grogan (see www.ImmigrationPolygraph.com ) is an immigration specialist; he has taught many other examiners the little-known specialty of 'Immigration Polygraph' including how to market to the number one client for this: immigration attorneys. See the extensive immigration polygraph section he wrote for PolygraphAcademy.com listed topic-by-topic in the index at that website. While several examiners now offer immigration testing', none have the long-time exoerience and knowledge of immigration matters that John has.

Mr. Grogan has educated many immigration attorneys as to the value of polygraph especially for these federal cases-- so many attorneys who first said "I never even thought of using a polygraph for this' now say to their clients "Let's get you a polygraph exam report for your case".

Watch here for improving your polygraph business by adding immigration as a specialty.