1. Rodi Alvarado, the applicant, made several failed appeals to the Guatemalan police for protection from her husband's extreme domestic abuse. Eventually, she fled to the US and applied for asylum. Her case was pending for more than ten years. Most recently, Attorney General Mukasey certified R-A-and ordered the BIA to reconsider the case, removing the requirement that the BIA await the issuance of proposed regulations. The BIA remanded to the IJ, who requested briefing on the issue of social visibility. DHS responded that it did not oppose a grant of asylum. Ms. Alvarado was recently granted asylum by the IJ. See generally Ctr. for Gender & Refugee Studies, Documents and Information of Rodi Alvarado's Claim for Asylum in the;& N;) worked its way through the asylum system since,1996
2. 17 at 79; See also Sharalyn Jordan, Un/Convention(al) Refugees: Accounts of Escape and Exile from Homophobic and Transphobic Persecution. Presentation at Centre for Refugee Studies Annual Student Conference;See Marouf;Canada,2009