
"I had been carrying those folders for three years. They looked at them and said — we know what to do with these."
Rosa worked double shifts at a restaurant in Pilsen for four years while her asylum case stalled in the backlog. She came to Reunión with a manila envelope so worn the corners had gone soft. Two paralegals and one attorney spent six hours with her over three sessions, rebuilding her timeline and filing a motion to reopen. The hearing lasted eleven minutes.
Asylum granted
March 2024


