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Asylum/Board of Immigration Appeals
Ms. Suh represented detained client who asserted fear of returning to China based upon past sterilization and aid to N. Korean refugees. At the merits, the IJ held that aid to N. Korean refugees did not constitute imputed political opinion and that Client was not credible and thus, did not have well-founded future fear of persecution. After Ms. Suh filed the appeal to the BIA, the IJ's decision was reversed and asylum granted.
Asylum/Immigration Court
Client applied for asylum to the Anaheim asylum office where she was denied. Ms. Suh then represented her based upon her imputed political opinion due to her activities advocating against the practice of female genital mutilation in Cameroon. The Immigration Judge granted asylum and Government waived appeal.
Asylum / Immigration Court
Client sought political asylum based upon political opinion and imputed political opinion. She alleged that she was being persecuted for participating in SCNC activities in Cameroon (an outlawed political group). Client was granted political asylum.
Asylum/Immigration Court
Ms. Suh defended an asylum seeker in court who feared return to China based upon his religious activities. Client had never been arrested but had escaped a house raid by the Chinese police. After a series of hearings and lengthy cross examination, the Immigration Judge granted asylum.
Asylum / Immigration Court
The client was a detained female national of China who sought political asylum based upon her persecution by a local headman's son. Ms. Suh defended the client at Court and the client was granted political asylum based upon the client's membership in a particular social group.
Asylum / Immigration Court
The client was a detained female national of China who feared return to China based upon her opposition to the coercive population control policies there. She asserted that the local family planning unit sought to persecute her after they became aware of her relationship with her boyfriend and that she refused to submit to forcible insertion of an IUD. Political asylum was granted.
Sexual Abuse of Minor/Immigration Court
Client was convicted of Ca. Penal Code 647.6(a) misdemeanor sexual abuse of a minor under 14 in 1989. In 2004, Client was taken into custody pursuant to Operation Predator, shipped to Eloy, Arizona, and charged with being an aggravated felon. Ms. Suh obtained a reasonable bond for Client, whereupon case was transferred to Los Angeles Immigration Court. There, Ms. Suh brought a motion to terminate the proceedings which was granted by the Immigration Judge.
Crime of Violence/Immigration Court
Client was convicted of Ca. Vehicle Code 2800.2(a) and charged with being an aggravated felon. Ms. Suh successfully brought a motion to terminate which was granted by the immigration court. The Government appealed and the BIA affirmed the judge's decision.
Domestic Violence Conviction / Immigration Court
Client was convicted of misdemeanor battery, Ca. Penal Code 243(A) and Ca. Penal Code Section 236, felony false imprisonment. The Government alleged that these convictions constituted domestic violence convictions. Ms. Suh successfully brought a motion to terminate which was granted by the Immigration Judge.
Cancellation of Removal/Immigration Court
Ms. Suh represented a Mexican husband and wife who had entered the U.S. without inspection. Client had four U.S. citizen children. Ms. Suh won cancellation of removal for her clients based upon the identification and diagnosis of the four year old daughter's social anxiety disorder.
Cancellation of Removal / Immigration Court
Client was a single mother from Mexico who entered the U.S. without inspection. Client has three U.S. citizen children. Client's daughters were honor roll students, ranging in age from seven to 14 years of age. Client's eldest daughter was diagnosed with an adjustment disorder. The judge agreed with Ms. Suh that the Client's removal would result in exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to the U.S. citizen children and granted cancellation of removal. The government waived appeal.
I-751 Denial/Immigration Court
The client's I-751 was denied by the US CIS and resulting in the initiation of removal proceedings. Ms. Suh successfully presented the bona fide nature of the marriage in court.
Adjustment of Status/HIV Waiver
Ms. Suh prepared and submitted the waiver for spouse of US Citizen, who was diagnosed as HIV+. The spouse received the greencard less than four months later.
Adjustment of Status & Extreme Hardship Waiver / Immigration Court
Ms. Suh represented a client who had entered the U.S. as a tourist and been arrested for having engaged in acts of prostitution during prior stays. Client was the spouse of a U.S. citizen. Without taking testimony from the U.S. citizen spouse, the court held that extreme hardship to the U.S. citizen spouse had been established and granted the waiver and adjustment of status.
N-400 Mandamus Action / Federal Court
Ms. Suh represented a client whose N-400 application had been stalled for two years based upon stalled security checks. Within weeks of filing the mandamus action, the client's application was approved and the oath taking ceremony appointment was set.
Denied Change of Status Mandamus Action / Federal Court
Ms. Suh represented a series of clients whose applications to change status to F-1 (foreign student) were denied by the USCIS. After filing the mandamus, the clients' changes of status were granted by the USCIS, enabling these clients to pursue their academic studies in the United States.
AAU Appeal of INA 212(i) Waiver
Client was the spouse of a U.S. citizen. At the greencard interview, the interviewing officer held that the Client had fraudulently entered the United States. Client applied for the waiver and the USCIS denied the waiver. Ms. Suh represented the Client on appeal to Washington D.C. The AAU sustained the appeal finding that the Client's spouse would suffer extreme hardship as a result of being separated from the applicant and that relocation would result in extreme hardship to the applicant. | 
