Our client, a citizen of Ethiopia, belonged to an ethnic group that was targeted by the ruling government of Ethiopia. The government used a tax fraud case as a pretext in order to persecute our client on account of her ethnicity and imputed political opinion. Our client fled and came to the U.S. as a visitor. She applied for asylum and was denied by the Houston Asylum Office. Attorney Furqan was hired, and at the final individual merits hearing, the immigration judge agreed to approve the case.
