Dain Torpy attorneys Kate Moran Carter and Michael McDermott recently won political asylum for their client in a removal hearing before the United States Immigration Court. The firm’s client, a Ugandan refugee and a member of the oppositional political party, the Forum for Democratic Change, fled to the United States in 2009 after being detained and tortured on two separate occasions because of his membership within the FDC. After presentation of the client’s direct testimony, cross-examination, and re-direct, the Immigration Judge granted the client’s application for asylum on the grounds that she found his testimony to be credible and that he had established his well-founded fear of future persecution by the government of Uganda on account of his membership in the FDC. The United States Department of Homeland Security immediately waived its right to appeal the decision. Ms. Carter and Mr. McDermott will now work to seek derivative asylum for the client’s wife and five children, whom he has not seen in five years and who continue to live in hiding in Uganda.
