Austin Noble - Work Samples

Internship: Hammond Young Immigration Law, LLC
Internship Work Samples
The purpose of these work samples is to highlight some of the
accomplishments that I made during my time at Hammond
Young Immigration Law, LLC, and demonstrate the skills that I
fostered while employed at this law firm. These internship
work samples include screenshots of a company LinkedIn page
that I created for Hammond Young Immigration, summaries of
court cases involving Ethiopian asylum applicants that I
drafted for my supervisor (immigration attorney Becki Young)
when she needed this information for a particular case, the
firm’s phone listing that I created through the use of Excel, 3
emails from a project that involved summarizing the latest
immigration news updates in order to determine the most
relevant daily immigration law story to share on the
company’s LinkedIn page, and a draft that I composed for the
firm’s August 2015 newsletter.

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Hammond Young Immigration Law, LLC is devoted exclusively to the practice of immigration law for
discerning clients who expect exceptional legal service and personal attention. With an intent focus on
transcending borders℠ Hammond Young attorneys provide thoughtful, ethical and results-oriented
immigration law solutions to help their clients address global immigration and mobility challenges.
With Washington, D.C. at the epicenter of immigration laws, regulations and policies that can change on
a moment's notice, Hammond Young recognizes the growing compliance and workload challenges facing
Human Resources professionals today. Its attorneys' in-depth knowledge and understanding of the
regulatory and legislative process, combined with their active participation in liaison committees with
government officials, put them at the cutting edge of the field to keep their clients immediately informed
about immigration law and compliance. They draw upon their vast experience to help clients navigate the
complex maze of immigration regulations and policies of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services,
the US Department of State and the US Department of Labor.
Hammond Young's lawyers are respected in the legal community for addressing important and sensitive
immigration matters and have received numerous accolades in prestigious peer review, legal and
business publications, including top ratings in Chambers USA, Chambers Global, Legal Times of
Washington, Washingtonian Magazine, Who's Who Legal, and BestLawyers®.
Clients have included Fortune 500 corporations; leading multinational law firms; top hospitality
companies; cuttingedge startups; research organizations; healthcare, educational and humanitarian
institutions; international medical graduates; artists; executives and other highly accomplished
individuals.
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Hammond Young Immigration Law, LLC The USCIS is currently requesting public feedback on draft
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Summaries of Recent Ethiopian Asylum Cases
1. Guta-Tolossa v. Holder 2012 – Guta-Toloaa, a citizen of Ethiopia, and of Oromo ethnicity
via his father, petitioned for asylum. He, and many members of his family, were well
recognized figures in the Oromo community; he, his brother, and his father were all in a
political organization known as the Mecha Tulema Association (MTA), which was outlawed
by the Ethiopian government. Eventually Gua-Tolossa’s brother and father were arrested, so
he obtained a new identity document to have his ethnicity legally changed in fear of
persecution on account of his Oromo ethnicity by the Ethiopian government. He later
decided to flee the country to Mexico City, where he was smuggled over the border into
Texas, and he was arrested near El Paso. He claimed at the time of entry that he did not feel
fear of his government, but immediately after making bond and threatened by removal, he
filed for asylum claiming fear of future persecution in Ethiopia as a result of his political
opinion, his group membership, and his ethnicity. The Immigration Judge denied
GoutaTolossa’s application for asylum, because his oral testimony was “vague” compared to
his
“quite detailed” affidavit. There was also the inconsistency between his first statement in El
Paso, even though he claims he could not speak English at the time and could not
understand what was asked of him, and his second statement when he filed for asylum. The
IJ also found very “little proof” in regards to all of his major points in his story. He filed an
appeal and the BIA dismissed his appeal due to failing to provide sufficient corroborating
evidence.
2. Fesehaye v. Holder 2012 – Fesehaye and her family lived in Addis Ababa until 1991, when
Eritrea declared its independence from the Ethiopian government. They then moved to
Eritrea for three years, and then in 1994 they returned to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where
Fesehaye claims to have witnessed frequent police arrests and assaults on innocent Eritreans.
In 1999, at age fourteen, she went to the police after her mother went missing, but received
no assistance. After a verbal altercation, she claims that the officers taped her mouth, tied
her hands, assaulted her, and held her incarcerated for two days. She stayed with her uncle’s
friend for months, and then fled to the Netherlands where she was interviewed by
immigration officials twice before being denied Dutch asylum. She tried to obtain a passport
back to Ethiopia, but was denied due to her Eritrean ethnicity. Then she was denied a
passport to Eritrea because there was no record of her citizenship as she could not provide
documentation showing she had voted for Eritrean independence. She then obtained a false
Dutch passport and fled to the U.S. and claimed she could not return to Eritrea because of
the persecution from the government to people of her Jehovah’s Witness faith, and she
could not return to Ethiopia due to her Eritrean ethnicity. The IJ and the BIA denied her
because of her lack of credibility, failing to show a well-founded fear of persecution, and
failing to establish her official identity, nationality, ethnicity, and citizenship.
3. Tadesse v. Gonzales 2007 – Upon returning to her home country of Ethiopia from Italy,
Tadesse was apprehended by police and accused of being an Eritrean spy because her legal
ethnicity is Eritrea on her father’s side. She testified that she was severely beaten, then raped

by two officers. Her father, brother, and sister were all deported to Eritrea, and she was
released and ordered to leave the country. After recovering at a friend’s house for two
months, she fled to Italy and then the U.S. to seek asylum. During her case, document expert
Dorothy Held testified that her Ethiopian deportation order was not authentic because “the
appearance of a genuine wet seal impression is the bench mark of a genuine document”. The
Immigration Judge denied asylum finding the Ethiopian deportation order to be fraudulent;
the Immigration Judge also found the petitioner’s testimony to be implausible and
inconsistent. On review the Seventh Circuit noted that that the Immigration Judge had
denied Tadesse some of her rights and faulted the Immigration Judge for his systematic and
obvious errors and recommended the case go to another Immigration Judge. The Court
granted her petition for review.
4. Menghesha v. Gonzales 2006 – Menghesha, a citizen of Ethiopia, applied for asylum based
on his fear that he would be persecuted by the Ethiopian government for thwarting the
arrest of anti-government protesters. He was working with the government security services,
and attended an anti-government meeting while undercover. During one meeting, police
were summoned to suppress the crowd. However, after witnessing the brutality and
mistreatment of the police towards citizens, the petitioner addressed his discontent to his
supervisors but was warned to not criticize the government. He was then assigned to arrest
five students by any means necessary, including deadly force. He and a colleague were
disturbed by the order, and warned the students to flee before police arrived. The students
were gone when security arrived, and the department suspected Menghesha and his
colleague. Petitioner and his colleague fled to the United States. The Immigration judge
denied his request for asylum because he feared prosecution for his criminal act of
obstruction of justice. On review, the Fourth Circuit granted the petition for review and
remanded the case because the Immigration Judge’s reasoning failed to consider the
evidence of political motive, rather than the strict matter of law.
5. Haile v. Gonzales 2005 – The petitioners, both Ethiopians of Eritrean descent, left Ethiopia
during the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea and sought asylum in the U.S. They both
feared persecution in Ethiopia based on their ethnicity and claimed that the country no
longer recognizes them as citizens. The Immigration Judge denied relief to the first
petitioner because she was able to obtain an Eritrean passport to resettle, and also found that
because the first petitioner had not suffered past persecution, future persecution was unlikely
since the war between the two countries had ended. The BIA affirmed. The second
petitioner claimed that because he is of Eritrean descent and left during conflict, Ethiopia
would not recognize him as a citizen. The IJ found that the second petitioner was also
unlikely to suffer persecution, and that he was not entitled to asylum because it was within
the Ethiopian government’s discretionary authority as a sovereign nation to not consider
him a citizen. During review the Seventh Circuit remanded the cases for the BIA to decide
because the Immigration Judge’s misconceived what a legal “resettlement” is in regards to
the first petitioner, and in regards to the second petitioner, the Immigration Judge failed to
acknowledge the difference between denying citizenship and divesting citizenship, cited

irrelevant case law, and had problematic reasoning in regards to the definition of
persecution.
6. Tesfamichael v. Gonzales 2005 – The petitioners are a married couple seeking asylum in the
United states. The couple filed a petition for review and motion to stay removal with the
Fifth Circuit. The husband, Dawit, is Ethiopian, and his wife, Senait, was born in Ethiopia
but is ethnically Eritrean. During a time of mass deportations, the couple attempted to flee
Ehiopia, but Senait was unable because she claims the required government-issued
documents were unavailable to her as an Eritrean in Ethiopia. They were then caught fleeing
to Kenya. Dawit was charged with smuggling Eritreans and was released on bond, and
Senait was released after a guard was bribed. Fearing persecution because of being married
to an Eritrean, Dawit fled the country. Senait was deported to Eritrea, along with all of her
family except for one sister who won the visa lottery and was allowed to immigrate to the
United States. After two years, Dawit and Senati reunited in South Africa, then petitioned
for refugee status in the U.S. out of fear of future persecution due to past persecution (the
case does not explain how the couple came to the U.S.). The IJ and the BIA denied the
petition because they both claimed inconsistencies in their stories, including their marriage,
because the Ethiopian government does not recognize their marriage. The BIA further
concluded that Dawit had not suffered any past persecution, because his fear of
imprisonment for his smuggling actions is the legitimate result of the application of
Ethiopian travel laws, and not the result of one of the fiuve bases of persecution from which
refugees are protected: race, political beliefs, religions, nationality, and a membership in a
particular social group. The Immigration judge and the BIA also deduced that they are not
applicable for asylum based on the fact that they had both already resettled in other
countries and feared no more persecution in Ethiopia. The BIA also suggested that Dawit
could immigrate to Eritrea with Senait if they were deported back to their own separate
countries. The government plans to deport them back to Ethiopia and Eritrea. The Fifth
Circuit granted their motion for stay of removal pending review due to disagreements with
the defining of law with the Immigration Judge and that the BIA’s advice for Dawit to
immigrate to Eritrea “amounts to a kind of insanity”. The Fifth Circuit claimed that it was
evident that both Dawit and Senait were not “resettled”, but rather they each had to move to
these new countries just long enough to escape to another country. The Fifth Circuit also
stated that it is likely that there was an error in the Ethiopian registering of their marriage,
and that Dawit’s smuggling actions should be seen not by the fact that he broke the law, that
because the persecution that he and Senait faced forced him to break the law and make an
attempt of smuggling his wife out of the country, making this possibly persecution based on
race, political belief, and membership in a social group.
7. Abay v. Ashcroft 2004 – The petitioner, Abay, and her daughter, petitioner Amare, entered
the U.S. 1993 as visitors. In 1996, following an unsuccessful application for aylum, the two
were each issued referral notices and orders to show cause. Their cases were consolidated
and Abay’s was designated the “lead file”. On behalf of Abay and Amare, counsel conceded
deportability and applied for relief in the form of asylum, withholding of deportation. In
1997 counsel submitted Abay’s fully brief application, where she claimed past persecution, a

fear of future persecution, on account of her Amhara ethnicity, her Pentacostal Christian
religious practice, and her membership in All Amhara People’s Organization, an opposition
political party in Ethiopia. Later in 1997, counsel submitted a supplemental brief and
exhibits supporting Amare’s application in which Amare, a minor, claimed that she feared
she would be subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) upon her return. THE
Immigration Judge claimed that even though 90% of Ethiopian females go through FGM at
some point in their lives, because she was older than the average age an Ethiopian goes
through FGM, and because none of her sisters were ever forced to go through FGM, it was
unlikely that she would ever face FGM. The Immigration Judge denied asylum to Amare,
and also denied asylum to Abay because her daughter’s possible FGM threat was not
persecution on her. The BIA affirmed the Immigration Judge’s denial of asylum. The Sixth
Circuit reversed the BIA’s affirmation of the Immigration Judge’s denial of aylum. The Sixth
Circuit held that a mother could qualify for asylum based on her fear that her daughter
would be subjected to female genital (FGM) if forced to return to Ethiopia. The minor
daughter also qualified for asylum based on the direct threat of FGM to her. The Sixth
Circuit held that the likelihood that Amare would go through FGM at some point in her life,
if returned to Ethiopia, and the persecution her mother would have to also endure if her
child was subjected to FGM, is proof enough that someone is applicable for asylum status.

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July 1, 2015
Re: Change of Address Request
To
Whom It May Concern:
I am writing to provide notice that my new firm is Hammond Young Immigration law, LLC. The firm
is located at 8737 Colesville Road, Suite 950, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20910. Please update my
account (ID: 9912160301).
Please feel free to contact me at (301) 917-6900 or byoung@hyimmigration.com with any questions.
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Becki L. Young
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July 1st, 2015
Becki,
I could not find too much news on immigration law policy updates, but I tried to include as much as I
could find. As far as the daily immigration law updates go, if this isn’t what you are looking for
exactly, let me know and I’ll try to draft these in a different way or look for better information.
- Immigration officials now consider gender identity when housing transgender detainees. All
appropriate data systems will be update to capture a detainee’s “biological sex” rather than
“gender”, and classify them as Male, Female, Intersex, or Unknown. Data fields must also be
added to record if the detainee identifies as “transgender”.
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement Taylor Johnson recently uncovered evidence of mass
mismanagement and fraud in the EB-5 visa program, a program that allows permanent
residency in the U.S. to foreigners that spend $500,000 USD into American businesses.
- All DOS visa-issuing embassies and consulates now back online, with more than 300,000
nonimmigrant visas issued last week. More than 3,750 temporary or seasonal workers have been
issued new visas in Mexico last week. H-2 applicants will be prioritized as the DOS systems
return to normal, with all current pending H-2 visas being issued by the end of next week.
Regards,
Austin Noble
Intern
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July 15th. 2015
Becki,
Here are today’s updates:
- As a result of the judge’s July 7, 2015 order threatening contempt citations in the ongoing
litigation in Texas v. United States, USCIS notified stakeholders that it is implementing additional
measures (including letters, phone calls, and home visits) to retrieve approximately
2,500 3-year EAD cards and DACA approvals that were issued erroneously after the court’s
February 16, 2015 injunction that temporarily halted the implementation of expanded
DACA.
- USCIS has issued a policy memo instructing employees to apply the Shalom Pentecostal decision
nationwide. Employees have also been instructed to no longer deny special immigrant religious
worker petitions (Form I-360s) based on the lawful status requirements at 8 CFR 204.5(m) (4)
and (11).
- USCIS has announced that it has completed processing the return of fiscal year 2016 H-1B
cap-subject petitions that were not selected in their computer-generated process of random
selection.
Regards,
Austin Noble
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August 3rd
, 2015
Becki,
Here are today’s updates:
- “The court vacated BIA's order denying petitioner’s asylum claim and remanded for
reconsideration of the credibility determination, finding that purported omissions upon which
the IJ based an adverse credibility determination were consistently present in the record.
(Mboowa v. Lynch, 7/21/15)”
- “DHS proposes to amend its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regulations by updating
and streamlining existing procedures, and incorporating changes made by the OPEN
Government Act of 2007, among other changes.”
- “For technical reasons, VSC has been unable to issue the approval notices for
recommendations received on or about June 16, 2015, or later. Many members are reporting
that they are receiving requests for evidence (RFE), specifically for the USCIS J-1 approval
notice, in H-1B petitions filed at the CSC premium processing unit with either the DOS
recommendation or USCIS J-1 waiver receipt notice only. . . The Vermont Service Center
(VSC) has confirmed with AILA that they are aware of this issue and that they are working
on resolving the delay.”
- Ten mothers have come forward with complaints about the substandard medical care they
and their children received while detained by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
These complaints are representative of regular failures of DHS to provide adequate medical
care for mothers and children in family detention facilities. The six organizations representing
these women are urging a prompt investigation into these 10 families to address systemic
problems that lead to the mistreatment of vast amounts of families put into detention, with
advocates taking to using the hashtag #EndFamilyDetention.
Regards,
Austin Noble
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South Korean Woman Granted Asylum From
Domestic Violence
Becki Young and the office of Hammond Young are celebrating their recent pro bono asylum
victory on behalf of a citizen of South Korea. In her 20's she fled the violence in her home
country and ultimately immigrated to South Korea, where she married a South Korean man and
obtained citizenship. Her husband severely abused her and her children over the course of
many years, and she eventually fled with her children to the United States. Legally speaking, the
case was interesting as the client traveled to the U.S. under the visa waiver program (an
unusual fact pattern for asylum applicants). It presented a unique challenge to the pro bono
attorneys in proving that the government of South Korea, a modern industrialized democracy,
failed to protect her from her husband's abuse. The affirmative asylum claim was approved by
the Arlington Asylum Office in April after pending for nearly 2 and a half years.
Sources:
Catholic Charities - Pro Bono Victories - April 2015
On the Matter of Simeio
Solutions, LLC Decision Overview:
According to the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS), and the
Administrative Appeals Office (AAO), in regards
to the precedent decision in Matter of Simeio
Solutions, LLC
decided on April 9, 2015, that:
1. "A change in the place of employment of a beneficiary to a geographical area requiring a
corresponding Labor Condition Application for Nonimmigrant Workers (LCA) be certified to
the DHS with respect to that beneficiary may affect eligibility for H-1B status". 2. "When
there is a material change in the terms and conditions of employment, the petitioner must
file an amended or new H-1B petition with the corresponding LCA."
Case Summary:

The petitioner filed a Petition for a nonimmigrant Worker (Form I-129) to classify the beneficiary
as an H-1B temporary nonimmigrant worker, and filed a Department of Labor (DOL) Labor
Condition Application for Nonimmigrant Workers in support of this petition. The petitioner stated
that the beneficiary would serve on an "in-house project" for the petitioner's facility with an annual
salary of $50,232, but emphasized that "[the beneficiary] is and will continue to work from [the
petitioner's] Long Beach office". The petitioner did no request other work sites and did not submit
an itinerary; the Director approved the Form I129 petition.
Upon a USCIS-conducted site visit to the petitioner's facility in Long Beach, California, the place
of employment specified in the H-1B petition and supporting documents, the USCIS officers were
"unable to locate the petitioner's office at the address identified in the petition and the LCA", and
after questioning the petitioner's director of operations found that the petitioner had vacated the
facility 2 months after the start date of the beneficiary's H-1B employment. They then visited the
newly provided company address, an employee's home address, and found that the petitioner
employed 45-50 people all assigned to the petitioner's Los Angeles office, and all were working
from home or a client work site. The Director then issued a notice of intent to revoke the approval
of the petition (NOIR). "The Director came to the conclusion that the changes in the beneficiary's
places of employment constituted a material change to the terms and conditions of employment
as specified in the original petition."
The California Service Center Director (Director) revoked the petitioner's nonimmigrant visa
petition and certified this decision to the AAO for review, where the AAO found that the petitioner
had not overcome the specified grounds for revocation. The AAO affirmed the Director's
decision and revoked the petition's approval.
Contrasting Opinions on the Decision:
Many are worried that this change in policy will do more harm than good, as the new ruling will
impose significant costs on the petitioners sponsoring these beneficiaries. These beneficiaries'
sponsors will now be required to pay the associated fees with filing for an amended or new H-1B
petition for each individual beneficiary any time that the beneficiary is moved to a new location,
regardless of whether or not the beneficiary is still working under the same pretenses and for the
same company, and feel these are unnecessary and imposing costs on beneficiary sponsors.
However, some see this more as a way to protect United States worker's wages by eliminating
economic incentives or advantages in hiring temporary foreign workers. Those in agreement with
the ruling feel that the decision will aid in further ensuring that the H-1B program is functioning
properly, will potentially reduce the amount of fraud within the program, and will promote job
growth for U.S. citizens rather than nonimmigrant workers.
Sources:
www.justice.gov www.uscis.gov
www.uschamber.com

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on July 16, 2015 at Busboys
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team retreat to the beautiful
Kenilworth Park and Aquatic
Gardens!
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