Client filed asylum in 2001 shortly after her arrival. She did not have her passport and I-94, which were the main reasons the Asylum Office denied her application as it did not believe she entered the US in 2001. Her case was transferred from LA to San Francisco, after she moved to the Bay Area. An LA attorney represented her in the removal hearing. Immigration judge again denied relief and ordered her removal, due in large part, to her inability to show she entered the US in 2001.
We took the case from that point and appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals. Through our work, we found evidence of client's 2001 entry and won the appeal. The case was remanded from the Board and the Board also criticized judge's incorrect standard in finding her not credible.
After the remand, client unfortunately committed a crime, which caused the government to question at her hearing if she is eligible for asylum and trying to cast doubt on her credibility.
We successfully argued at her hearings(yes hearings as this case lasted for more than two years because the court and the government continued the case several times) that our client was credible and her crime did not change her eligibility for asylum. ICE counsel's attempt on cross to question her asylum claim and the crime, their attempt to use the police report to impeach our client, and their yet another motion to continue the hearing in order to get criminal court proceeding transcript were all successfully objected by us.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment