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T Visa Sample Cover Letter – Domestic Servitude

forced her to work extraordinary hours for only a fraction of the wages she earned, threatened

that the police would come after her if she left, and isolated her from the outside world.

a. Ms. TRAFFICKER Emotionally Abused Ms. CLIENT and Kept her Isolated

from the Outside World

Ms. TRAFFICKER kept Ms. CLIENT in a state of involuntary servitude through

emotional abuse and isolation. When Ms. TRAFFICKER was home, she followed Ms. CLIENT

around and criticized her work constantly. Id. ¶ 32. Ms. CLIENT states that she “felt constantly

humiliated by [Ms. TRAFFICKER]. Nothing I ever did was good enough.” Id. Her humiliation

was furthered by the fact that Ms. TRAFFICKER forced her to eat alone on a broken glass

tabletop in the kitchen—which Ms. CLIENT had accidentally broken when she placed a hot pot

on it. Id. ¶ 34. These practices gradually caused Ms. CLIENT’s self-esteem to deteriorate.

While Ms. TRAFFICKER did not physically beat Ms. CLIENT, she kept her in an

uncomfortable, even painful physical state. During her first months with Ms. TRAFFICKER,

Ms. CLIENT was so cold that she “lay in bed crying because I was freezing.” Id. ¶ 27. Ms.

TRAFFICKER had told Ms. CLIENT to leave her clothing in COUNTRY because she would

provide new clothing for her in the U.S., but then failed to do so. When winter came, Ms.

CLIENT was forced to shovel snow without proper clothing. She writes, “I cried as my feet

froze while I shoveled snow in my only shoes—open backed black summer shows—because I

had never felt anything that cold before.” Id. ¶ 35.

Ms. CLIENT’s physical state also languished as time passed without medical treatment

for the myoma. Although she had promised Ms. CLIENT medical treatment in the U.S., once in

the U.S., Ms. TRAFFICKER denied Ms. CLIENT access to medical care. Ms. CLIENT was

forced to pay a portion of her paycheck each month to Ms. CLIENT for medical care, but it was

never clear to Ms. CLIENT whether she actually had insurance and she was unable to receive

treatment. When Ms. CLIENT complained about the pain she felt, Ms. TRAFFICKER made

fun of her, describing it as “women’s pain” that all women feel. Id. ¶ 52.

b. Ms. TRAFFICKER Coerced Ms. CLIENT Into Staying With Threats of

Harm Upon Leaving

Ms. TRAFFICKER also kept Ms. CLIENT in a condition of involuntary servitude

through threats of what would happen to her if she escaped. Ms. TRAFFICKER threatened that

if Ms. CLIENT ever left, the police would chase after her. Id. ¶ 39. This threat particularly

scared Ms. CLIENT because of her experiences in COUNTRY, where her mother was jailed for

three years with no trial when Ms. CLIENT was a child, for selling dried fish without a permit.

Id. ¶ 5. Ms. CLIENT states that, “In COUNTRY, the President has all the power, so I believed,

and still believe, that a diplomat like Ms. TRAFFICKER, who is also his mistress, could really

hurt me, even make me disappear if she wanted to.” Id. ¶ 39.

Ms. CLIENT got extremely worried during the time that she lived at Ms.

TRAFFICKER’s house and often lost her appetite. Id. ¶ 38. As she spent more time at Ms.

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