NOW Legal Defense Fund and others filed this amicus in support of the appeal by Aruna C. Vallabhaneni of the decision of the Immigration Judge denying her application for political asylum despite an undisputed record of years of severe domestic violence and her inability to obtain protection from the government of India. The record before the judge established that Ms. Vallabhaneni was persecuted in the past and that she has a well-founded fear that she will continue to be persecuted in the future by her husband if she is forced to return to India, that the persecution she experienced and which she fears was inflicted because of her membership in a particular social group defined in whole or in part by her gender, and that she is not able to obtain protection from her government.
National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project