Our client, a Syrian national, was approved for asylum by the Houston Asylum Office. Although he had spent a majority of his life in the UAE, Attorney Furqan argued that he could not have “firmly resettled” in the UAE since there is no concept of permanent legal residency or naturalization there, and therefore, he still qualified for asylum. The Houston Asylum Office approved his case based on the grounds that he feared persecution by the Syrian government. The Syrian government considered him a threat because he had provided medical supplies to demonstrators.
