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As more countries worldwide pass anti-LGBTQ laws, the number of individuals coming to Immigration Equality from Russia, the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa has increased. Immigration Equality has a 98% win rate for their clients in asylum offices and immigration court. [8] In 2013, the organization represented approximately 354 clients.
Immigration clinics often find it easier to support clients seeking affirmative asylum rather than defensive asylum due to several key factors. Firstly, in affirmative asylum cases, individuals apply for asylum before they face deportation proceedings. This approach allows immigration clinics to prepare a case with time for gathering evidence ...
Immigration Equality also maintains a list of LGBT/HIV-friendly private immigration attorneys, and provides technical assistance to attorneys working on sexual orientation, transgender identity, or HIV status-based asylum applications, or other immigration applications where the client's LGBT or HIV-positive identity is at issue in the case. [23]
If passed, any Indiana law enforcement officer who makes a misdemeanor or felony arrest would be required to contact ICE if they have probable cause regarding the immigration status of the accused.
In 2008, [needs update] only Canada, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, the United States, and Switzerland had enacted immigration equality allowing for partner sponsorship. [46] Data shows nearly 4,400 people sought asylum from 2007 to 2017. [47] But the exact number of LGBT people seeking asylum into the United States is not known as of 2020. [48]
An injunction was granted against Indiana’s youth gender-affirming therapy ban last June, a month before it was set to take effect, but providers like Clawson's were still on guard. The ...
Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday fired back at comments made earlier this week by president-elect Trump's "border czar" to make the city ground zero for a mass deportation effort.
Transgender asylum seekers are transgender people seeking refuge in another country due to stigmatization or persecution in their home countries. [1] Because of their gender non-conformity, transgender asylum seekers face elevated risks to their mental and physical health compared to cisgender asylum seekers or those whose gender identity is the same as their sex assigned at birth, including ...