In December 2011, two Bhutanese nationals of Nepali ethnicity, represented by Kasowitz attorneys since 2006, were finally granted asylum after a full hearing before a New York Immigration Court Judge. The lead applicant had been persecuted in Bhutan because of his ethnicity, religion, and membership in a politically active family, whose members had publicly criticized and peacefully demonstrated against the Bhutan government’s “One Country, One People” policies and, as a result, had been declared “anti-nationals” of Bhutan. In Nepal, the applicant experienced further persecution and faced serious physical harm based on his actual and imputed political opinions and unprotected status as a refugee from Bhutan. A number of members of the clients’ extended family, who had been living in refugee camps in Nepal, have been reunited with the clients in the United States through a U.S. State Department resettlement program.