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Rody Alvarado (Finally) Prevails!

By immigrationprof

Julia Preston of the N.Y. Times reports the very latest in the long and winding road of a case (which began in 1995) for Rody Alvarado, “a Guatemalan woman fleeing horrific abuse by her husband.”  The Obama Administration has recommended granting her asylum. “After 14 years of legal indecision, during which several immigration courts and three attorneys general considered Ms. Alvarado’s case, the Department of Homeland Security cleared the way for her in a one-paragraph document filed late Wednesday in immigration court in San Francisco. Ms. Alvarado, the department found, `is eligible for asylum and merits a grant of asylum as a matter of discretion.’”

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Karen Musalo and the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at Hastings College of the Law at the University of California represented Alvarado and has handled a number of other precedent-setting asylum cases on behalf of women, including the Matter of Kasinga (1996) which dealt with female genital mutilation.

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