Congress Demands Action on Special Immigrant Visa Program
19 REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC U.S. REPRESENTATIVES ASK PRESIDENT OBAMA TO EXTEND AND REFORM VISA PROGRAMS FOR IRAQI AND AFGHAN ALLIES “The U.S. has a responsibility to follow through on our promise to protect those Iraqis and Afghans who have risked their lives to aid our troops and protect America’s security.” – 19 U.S. Representatives [...]
IRAP Profiled by PRI’s “The World”
Public Radio International’s “The World” ran a profile on IRAP that aired on NPR stations across the United States. The piece, available here, focuses on three military veterans at our U.C. Berkeley School of Law Chapter who returned to the U.S. and joined IRAP in order to assist Afghan and Iraqi military allies who had [...]
Forbes quotes IRAP in piece on our Afghan and Iraqi Allies
Forbes Magazine covered the ongoing crisis facing Iraqi and Afghan allies of the U.S. military who are being left behind to face death, kidnapping and persecution following the U.S. withdrawal. Although a special visa program exists to help our military allies immigrate safely to the U.S., that program is not operating quickly enough to protect [...]
“Forgotten in Iraq”
The New York Times Op-Ed page today features a moving video opinion piece by Beth Murphy on the abandonment of our Iraqi allies in Iraq. Click here to view the powerful short piece.
IRAP Director Becca Heller on Chicago NPR’s Worldview Discussing Visas for Afghan Allies
Click here to listen to IRAP’s Director Becca Heller discuss the plight of Afghan interpreters for the U.S. military whose lives are at risk while they endure years of visa processing in order to safely come to the U.S. This visa program was mandated by Congress when it passed the Afghan Allies Protection Act, but [...]
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