However, their asylum claim was rejected, and they were deported during an immigration dawn raid on her family home while she was staying at a friend's house. El-Attar was eventually granted asylum because of her LGBT status.[1] She describes the process she went through as difficult and even humiliating: "I had to produce evidence about sexual intercourse. Not the nicest thing, having to call up your exes and ask them to write about the time they had sex with you.