![]() ![]() Rehman says he always reads and hears that immigrants have a good life in the US, and when they first arrived, they too had a good life. ![]() ![]() The family and their attorney both declined to comment on the specifics of their asylum claim for fear that it could jeopardize their case. The couple entered the US from Pakistan legally in 2000, on a tourist visa, and decided to seek asylum so they could live and work here permanently. He maintains that in the 18 years he and his wife have been in the US, they’ve never broken or attempted to evade the law. That’s because they were confined to the grounds of the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme, where they were seeking sanctuary from a deportation order they received earlier in 2018.Ī bulky ankle monitor allowed authorities to keep track of Rehman, who was careful to never leave the church premises. He and his wife Zahida Altaf lived in the leafy coastal town for six months, but never actually walked out on the streets. ![]() Malik Naveed bin Rehman has spent much of this year wishing he could see the town of Old Lyme, Connecticut. ![]()
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