ArticleA transsexual woman who was arrested last month in San Francisco and faced immediate deportation to Indonesia has won the right for her asylum case to be re-opened, the United States Board of Immigration Appeals announced on September 20.
Michelle Saraswati will get a new asylum hearing in San Francisco, likely to be scheduled for several months from now, and also may be released from the Santa Clara County jail where she has been held since August 8. It is not yet known whether her release from jail will require a public hearing or a bond payment, said her attorney Zach Nightingale with the law firm Van Der Hout, Brigagliano, and Nightingale.
