A transgender man from China sued the US in a federal court, saying that the seven years he’s been waiting for an asylum hearing are unreasonable.
Xiaowei Li requested asylum when he arrived in the US in 2016, saying that he left his homeland because he and his family were persecuted because he is transgender.
The Immigration and Nationality Act gives the US Citizenship and Immigration Service 45 days to schedule an asylum hearing and 180 days to reach a determination. There is a backlog of asylum cases and in 2018 USCIS adopted a last-in-first-out system to address it, which ...
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