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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Afghan and Iraqi Allies v. Pompeo

1:18-cv-01388 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 12, 2018

Case Ongoing

Background After long delays in the processing of their Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) applications, a group of Afghans and Iraqis who worked for the U.S. government to support U.S. missions in their home countries, filed this class action challenge against the Departments of State (DOS) and Homeland Security (DHS). The plaintiffs, represented by the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) and the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, filed the lawsuit on June 12, 2018, in the U.S.…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Adam v. Pompeo

1:20-cv-03079 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Oct. 22, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case is about the government's failure to adjudicate refugees' follow-to-join (FTJ) petitions that would allow their families to reunite in the U.S. in a timely manner.The plaintiffs are both Sudanese refugees from the Darfur region who fled the country in the early 2010s to escape the ethnic cleansing being carried out by President Omar al-Bashir. Since their arrival in the United States, both filed a "follow-to-join" petition through U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), whi…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Abdi v. Duke [later Nielsen]

1:17-cv-00721 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: July 28, 2017

Case Ongoing

On July 28, 2017, an asylum-seeker who had been held in federal detention for nine months sought habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. Three weeks later, represented by the New York Civil Liberties Union and the International Refugee Assistance Project, he and a fellow asylum-seeker filed an amended petition and class action complaint against the Department of Homeland Security. They challenged the federal government’s authority to indefinitely detain …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Kiakombua v. McAleenan

1:19-cv-01872 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 25, 2019

Case Ongoing

On June 25, 2019, five asylum seekers from Angola, Cuba, and El Salvador filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Attorney General under the Refugee Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a); Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1231(b)(3); Article 3 of the Convention Against Torture, 8 C.F.R. § 208.16(c), (d); and the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. § 706(2). The plaintiffs, represented…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe 1 v. McAleenan

5:18-cv-02349 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 18, 2018

Case Ongoing

On April 18, 2018, a group of five unnamed plaintiffs filed this class action lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sought to represent a class of Iranian refugees and their U.S.-based family members who applied for refugee resettlement through the Vienna, Austria-based Lautenberg-Specter program and were denied. The plaintiffs alleged that they had applied for refugee resettlement through the…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Nine Iraqi Allies Under Serious Threat Because of Their Faithful Service to the United States v. Kerry

1:15-cv-00300 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 27, 2015

Closed Date: Aug. 10, 2016

On February 27, 2015, following long delays in the processing of their Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) applications, nine Afghans and Iraqis under threat in their home countries for supporting U.S. operations filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs, represented by the International Refugee Assistance Program (IRAP), sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Department of State (DOS). Congress passed the Refugee Cris…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
S.A. v. Trump

3:18-cv-03539 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 13, 2018

Case Ongoing

Applicants and beneficiaries of the Central American Minors (CAM) parole program filed this class-action lawsuit on June 13, 2018, challenging the Trump Administration's termination of the program and its revocation of parole for nearly 3,000 children. Seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as that the defendants be equitably estopped, the plaintiffs alleged that the termination of the program violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), regulations promulgated by the Department…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
HIAS, Inc. v. Trump

8:19-cv-03346 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 2019

Case Ongoing

On November 21, 2019, three refugee resettlement agencies filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, challenging the Trump Administration's recent Executive Order, "Enhancing State and Local Involvement in Refugee Resettlement." The agencies (HIAS, Inc., Church World Service, Inc., and Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service, Inc.), represented by the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), sued President Trump, the Department of State, the Department of…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
International Refugee Assistance Project (“IRAP”) v. Trump

8:17-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 31, 2020

On February 7, 2017, five immigrant advocacy organizations and fifteen individual immigrants filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (in Greenbelt). Represented by the ACLU and the National Immigration Law Center, the plaintiffs challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017, executive order (EO). The order restricted admission to the U.S. for nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries and suspended the U.S. refugee program. The plaintiffs allege…