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Akhtar v. Burzynski

8:02-cv-00245 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 7, 2002

Closed Date: 2005

On March 7, 2002, children of lawful permanent U.S. residents filed a lawsuit under 28 U.S.C. Section 2201 in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief, challenging the validity of an "age-out" provision in regulations governing nonimmigrant "V" visas. V visas were established as part of the Legal Immigration Family Equity Act of 2000 (LIFE Act) and granted temporary lawful status to spouses and children of l…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Angco v. Haig

2:79-cv-04636 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 1979

Closed Date: 1981

In 1979, a group of Philippine permanent visa applicants who were working as registered nurses in the U.S. under temporary visas filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to challenge the way visas were being distributed under Section 202(e) of the 1976 amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C.A. § 1152 (e). That section changed the manner in which citizens of a foreign country were admitted to the U.S. as permanent residents. Under the a…
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Contreras De Avila v. Bell

1:78-01166 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 29, 1978

In 1978, a group of Mexican visa applicants filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, seeking recapture of visas allegedly incorrectly charged to the yearly quota for Mexico in fiscal year 1977. On May 18, 1979 the District Court (Judge Marshall) ruled that the State Department had incorrectly interpreted the 1976 amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act and that 9,565 additional visas should be awarded to Mexican immigrants. Follow…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Catholic Charities v. Chertoff

4:07-cv-01307 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 6, 2007

Closed Date: May 20, 2010

On March 6, 2007, a coalition of social justice and immigrant rights groups, led by Catholic Charities CYO, filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief compelling the federal government to implement the "U" visa program. The U visa program was part of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000, 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15)(U), ("VTVPA"), which permitted immigrants who were victims of se…
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LULAC v. INS

2:87-cv-04757 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 22, 1987

Closed Date: April 25, 2007

This case, Newman v. INS (originally LULAC v. INS) was a companion case to Catholic Social Services v. Reno (IM-CA-11 of this collection). Both cases were filed by attorneys for the Center For Human Rights & Constitutional Law and challenged the INS' interpretation of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ("IRCA"), which established a one-time only amnesty program through which aliens could apply for lawful temporary resident status. Catholic Social Services v. Reno was filed in Nov…
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Chintakuntla v. INS

3:99-cv-05211 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 8, 1999

Closed Date: 2003

On December 8, 1999, plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, challenging the INS denial of employment-based second preference (EB-2) immigrant visa petitions that were filed by U.S. employers and immigrants who sought to obtain work visas for immigrants with certain employment skills and experience. The issue in plaintiffs' complaint was the INS policy of denying EB-2 applications when form ETA 750 specified a Bachelor's degre…
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Gonzales v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

2:06-cv-01411 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2006

Closed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

On September 28, 2006, a consortium of immigrant rights advocacy groups, including Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and the American Immigration Law Foundation, filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, challenging the Department of Homeland Security's refusal to comply with the precedent decision of the Ninth Circuit in Perez-Gonzalez v. Ashcroft, 379 F.3d 783 (9th Cir. 2004). Plaintiffs alleged that federal immigration officials had bee…
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Silva v. Bell

1:76-04268 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Nov. 18, 1976

Closed Date: 1979

On November 18, 1976, a class of visa applicants from Western Hemisphere countries whose applications were filed between July 1, 1968, and December 31, 1976, but had not yet been processed, brought suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, challenging policies of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in processing their applications. Plaintiffs alleged that the INS unlawfully charged visa numbers that were issued to Cuban refugees who were granted pe…
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Allende v. Shultz

1:83-03984 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Dec. 14, 1983

Closed Date: 1989

In December 1983, Hortensia de Allende, the widow of the former Chilean President, and U.S. citizens who had extended speaking invitations to her filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts to contest her denial of nonimmigrant tourist visa in response to speaking invitations from various scholastic and community groups. The State Department denied the visa under Section 212(a)(27) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(27) (1982…
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WJA Realty Limited Partnership v. Nelson

1:88-cv-00810 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 6, 1988

On May 6, 1988, the World Jai Alai Association Reality Limited Partnership (WJA) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, challenging the Immigration and Naturalization Service's suspension of work authorizations of Jai Alai players. The suspensions were pursuant to INS regulation 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)(14)(iv) which allowed the suspension of employees holding H-1 visas in the event of a labor strike, provided that the Department of Labor certified that the strike…