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Big Tech’s big green card problem

by Hugh Langley, Kali Hays, and Eugene Kim, Business Insider

May 2, 2024 – Benach Pitney Reilly founding partner Ava Benach explains that Google’s decision to pull back on green card applications has reverberated through the tech industry.

AILA's Asylum Primer: A Practical Guide to U.S. Asylum Law and Procedure, 9th ed.

AILA’s Asylum Primer: A Practical Guide to U.S. Asylum Law and Procedure, 9th ed.

by Dree Collopy

Dec. 6, 2023 Benach Pitney Reilly founder Dree Collopy authored the 9th edition of the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s primer on asylum law.

When Lera (right) met Anya, her first thought was that she had “never seen such a pretty girl.” Photograph courtesy of Lera.

Escaping Putin’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Russia

by Benny B. Peterson, Washingtonian

Dec. 21, 2023 – Two Russian women, Anya and Lera, spoke with Washingtonian about their journey to escape Russia, where they could not safely live openly as a lesbian couple, and build a new life in the United States where Benach Pitney Reilly founding partner Ava Benach helped them gain asylum.

Asylum seeking migrants from Tajikistan walk toward a makeshift camp to await processing by the U.S. Border Patrol on Friday in Jacumba Hot Springs, California.

What Potential Asylum Changes Could Actually Mean for Migrants

by Myah Ward, Politico

Dec. 1, 2023 – Benach Pitney Reilly founding partner Ava Benach spoke with Politico about the impact that proposed immigration changes being debated in Congress would have on asylum seekers.

Ava Benach, Immigration Attorney, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Benach Pitney Reilly Immigration, in Washington, D.C.

WBA Member Spotlight: Ava Benach

by Carol Montoya, Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia

June 21, 2023 – The WBA interviewed Benach Pitney Reilly founding partner Ava Benach about her career and the importance of Pride month to the LGBTQ community.

Migrant people wait on the banks of the Rio Grande to be processed by U.S. Border Patrol, after crossing from Ciudad Juarez, in El Paso, Texas,

America and Immigration: How Did We Get Where We Are Today?

by Lee Cowan, CBS News

May 14, 2023 – Benach Pitney Reilly founding partner Ava Benach talked with CBS News about her client Henry Rivas Sibrian, who is seeking asylum in the United States because of the violence he faces in his native El Salvador due to his sexual orientation, and the unsettling feeling of not knowing when your life in U.S. might be ripped away. Sibrian’s asylum case has been pending since 2017.

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