by admin | May 30, 2024 | Success Stories
In March of 2024, thanks to the government’s decision not to appeal, an immigration judge’s grant of asylum to an APA client from Nicaragua became final, giving “Julia” the safety and peace of mind she has sought since fleeing her country more than a year ago. Julia...
by admin | May 30, 2024 | Success Stories
Her birth certificate and utility bill in hand, “Laura” was walking to her high school to pay a registration fee when her life was brutally changed forever. As she passed by a park, a man grabbed her from behind and put a rag over her head. She lost consciousness and...
by admin | May 30, 2024 | Success Stories
Most asylum seekers APA helps are recent arrivals to the US. Occasionally, however, long-term US residents apply for asylum to avoid deportation. Like anyone else, to qualify, they must show past persecution or a “well-founded fear” of persecution based on one of five...
by admin | May 30, 2024 | Success Stories
In May of 2024, a Tucson Immigration Judge granted asylum to “Tarik,” a young man from Afghanistan who feared persecution as a member of an ethnic and religious minority group. The man, who also feared persecution because his father, killed in a bombing before the...
by admin | May 30, 2024 | Success Stories
Mistakes happen. But when US immigration authorities commit mistakes, the result can be family separation, wrongful deportation, and even death. Thanks to the quick work of APA’s main attorney volunteer, Erika Kreider, one such tragedy has likely been averted. Erika...
by admin | May 30, 2024 | Success Stories
Thanks to APA’s intervention and a mother’s perseverance, seven members of a Central American family received asylum in March of 2024. As “Sofia” learned only after she married, her husband was involved in drug smuggling. Other drug traffickers from whom he had stolen...
