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K. fears returning to Cuba because of his past advocacy for LGBTQ rights and HIV prevention work. He was detained with other gay men and HIV prevention activists and was surveilled in his neighborhood. K. timely filed for asylum. All affidavits and supporting documents for K.’s case will be due 15 days prior to his individual merits hearing, which has not yet been scheduled. If client and pro bono counsel agree, counsel can file a motion to set the case for merits.

As a public school teacher P. was expected to support the government's political party. P refused to support the government party, “the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola” (the MPLA). His wife, Q., occasionally participated in anti-government events and they believed she was identified as anti-government. P was kidnapped, beaten and threatened with death. His wife and children were also victims of attempted harm including threats and attempted kidnapping due to their lack of support of the government party. After an incident in 2022 where a person on a motorcycle shot at P and the children, they fled for Brazil. NIJC timely filed P.’s application for asylum with the immigration court. All affidavits and supporting materials to their case will be due 15 days prior to their individual merits hearing, which has not yet been scheduled 

When A.’s mother and biological father were in a relationship he would hit her while pregnant with A. and when A. was born her father attempted to kidnap her from the hospital. Due to abuse and his involvement in the 18 street gang in Honduras, they separated. A.'s father has never been a part of A.'s life and has not provided emotional or financial support. Pro bono counsel will need to file a petition seeking to establish paternity, grant sole allocation of parental responsibilities to A.'s mother and obtain an order finding that A.'s reunification with her father is not viable due to his abandonment and neglect and that it is not in A.'s best interest to return to Honduras.