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L.'s father abused her from a young age; he was violent with her siblings, mother and son. L.’s ex-partner, and father of her son, threatened L. with harm and death after she left him.  He is a member of an armed vigilante group that purports to fight the gangs in Honduras. Fearing further abuse from her father and ex-partner, L. fled to the United States.  USCIS must receive L.’s skeletal application for asylum, with K. included as a derivative, by October 9, 2019.  All affidavits and supporting materials to L.’s case will be due one week prior to her interview at the asylum office, which will likely occur 4-6 weeks after filing.

A. has not had a relationship with his father in many years and was raised primarily by his mother.  A. came to the United States in November 2015. He was apprehended and detained in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, and eventually released to his mother’s care. Although A.’s father’s name is not on A.’s birth certificate, A.’s mother believes his father would sign an acknowledgement of paternity. The pro bono attorney will need to file a custody case on behalf of A’.s mother, and obtain an order finding that A.’s reunification with his father is not viable due to abandonment and/or neglect, and that it is not in A.’s best interest to return to Mexico.

I. grew up practicing Sunni Islam, the dominant religion of Pakistan, but converted to Shia Islam a few years ago. After converting, I. started receiving threats and was brutally attacked. After a particularly brutal attack that sent I. to the hospital, the police refused to help him saying that I. should just stop being Shia. I. fled Pakistan and entered the United States on July 24, 2019. He was apprehended and detained soon after entry. I. is currently a plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against the “Asylum Ban 2.0.”  I. is currently detained in San Diego and will seek asylum as a defense to deportation.