Congrats to the Cornell Clinic and Steve Yale-Loehr!

The Cornell asylum/CAT appeals clinic recently assisted in two unpublished victories at the BIA. One case involved a child soldier from Uganda who pplied for asylum. That case involved issues of the one-year bar to filing for asylum and whether the harm suffered rose to the level of “persecution.” The case was handled at the IJ level by Julia Morgan in Minnesota; two students in our clinic drafted the BIA brief for her signature. The other case involved a woman from Liberia who had been raped and suffered female genital mutilation as a child before coming to the US. Because of certain criminal convictions, she was only able to apply for deferral under CAT. The case was handled at the IJ leval by Raha Jorjani of the Florence Project; two students in our clinic drafted the BIA brief for her signature. Following are redacted BIA decisions in both cases. We hope they will assist people with similar claims in the future. Steve Yale-Loehr Download liberia_redated_bia_decis.pdf  Download uganda_bia_2006_redacted.pdf

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