Experience Deep knowledge of your business's most important issues. Affirmative Asylum Application - Syria Represented a Syrian television journalist targeted for persecution by the Syrian Government and terrorist syndicates in affirmative asylum proceedings before U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services. People David A. Hickerson Kristen M. Maryn Samantha A. Robbins Christopher Swift Practice Areas Government Enforcement Defense & Investigations Offices New York Washington, D.C.