U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York at the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Courthouse on 225 Cadman Plaza East in the civic center of Brooklyn.
They have few legal options to speed up the process other than filing for a writ of mandamus, according to Patel and David Wilkins, who is the director of immigration and LGBTQ/HIV+ advocacy at Staten Island Legal Services.
October 18, 2019 at 05:58 PM
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More than two years after they applied for asylum in the United States, five transgender Staten Island residents filed for a writ of mandamus in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in an attempt to get their asylum applications heard.
The women, who came to the United States from Mexico, all applied for asylum in 2016 or 2017 on the grounds that they will be persecuted for their gender identity in Mexico, according to the complaint.
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