Student-Attorney Recounts Asylum Case

Sydney Barron, a 3L Immigration Clinic student-attorney, authored a post about assisting in an asylum case on the blog of law firm Benach Ragland LLP. Ms. Barron chronicles the case of her client "Julia" who was granted asylum in the United States after fleeing domestic violence in her home country of Guatemala. GW Law's Immigration Clinic assisted Julia in appealing her case after an immigration court denied her initial asylum request. Ms. Barron concluded, "The opportunity to help protect her [Julia] from further abuse and finally bring her a sense of peace and closure was an amazing gift."