Asylum Approval Based on Religion for a Chinese Client in Virginia

CASE: Asylum.
NATIONALITY: China.
RESIDENCE: Virginia.

Our client is a Chinese national on an F-1 visa. He now resides in Virginia. He became a Christian a few years ago while away from China. As he moved to the States, his faith strengthened when his daughter was diagnosed with leukemia. He had turned to God for help, for his daughter to survive. With his prayers and the support of the Christian community, his daughter has done well with her treatment. Our client and his wife would spend days in the hospital with their baby daughter.

A few months ago he had to go back to China to visit his ailing mother-in-law. His wife could not go back as she was pregnant. Our client brought some bibles with him and was arrested at the airport in Beijing. He then was caught a few days later while in prayer service, was detained, and was persecuted.

Upon his return to the U.S., he contemplated on filing for asylum. His daughter is sick, and he had a new child coming up. Our office was retained to file an asylum application for him. We made sure his application was detailed and that he provided all dates, places, and names specifically. We made sure all questions in the asylum application were properly answered, and that possible questions of the officer were anticipated and answered in the application.  We also made sure he properly corroborated his claim with evidence from Church, from China, and everything he had in the U.S. to help his case.

After filing the case, he was scheduled for his asylum interview in Arlington Virginia, about a month from filing the application. Prior to his interview, we prepared him for several hours, conducting mock interviews to make sure he is ready. We accompanied our client to the Arlington Asylum Office and the interview lasted for more than an hour.

Two weeks later, our client obtained his asylum approval. He is now in valid status, can stay in the United States, and has authorization to work.

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