Hours of interviews, months of waiting: they were a small price to pay for Syrians, Iranians and others hoping the U.S. would be their new home. The couple’s 18-year-old daughter is autistic, he said, and refuses to wear a headscarf, which has gotten her arrested by Iran’s moral police. This week he called the International Organization for Migration, which processes asylum cases, but officers there said they had heard nothing. “We asked if they could switch our case to another country, and they said it was unlikely,” Yousef said. “We do not know what the answer of the U.S. will be — it is less than 10 days from now,” said Kargar, 60.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 28, 2017 00:20 UTC