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The Matter of Kasinga was a legal case settled in 1996 involving Fauziya Kassindja, then a Togolese teenager seeking asylum in the United States in order to escape a tribal practice of female genital cutting. The Board of Immigration Appeals granted her asylum in June 1996 after an earlier judge denied her claims. The case set a precedent in United States immigration law as applicants could now seek asylum in the United States from gender-based persecution, whereas previously religious or political grounds were often used to grant asylum.