Read IRAP’s Policy Memo Urging the Use of Videoconferencing in Syria
Current American policy and practice bars the use of videoconferencing to conduct initial interviews with Iraqis seeking admission to the United States as refugees. This practice has stalled the processing of at least 10,000 applications from Iraqi refugees who are now consequently trapped inside Syria,1 an increasingly tense and dangerous place. Given these dire circumstances, [...]
Waiting for Resettlement Interviews in Syria: “Caught Between a Rock and No Place”
About 10,000 Iraqi refugees wait in Syria for the interviews with the US Government that will determine their future and that of their families, the New York Times reports. But even though the Syrian government has made visas available for DHS officials to conduct resettlement interviews, and while Canada, the International Organization for Migration, and [...]
Urgency of Refugee Admissions Intensifies as Violence Escalates in Iraq
BAGHDAD, 19 January 2012 (IRIN) – Suicide attacks, assassinations and bombings in Iraq have claimed the lives of at least 265 people and injured hundreds of others since 18 December, the date the USA withdrew all but 200 of its troops from the country, according to the health and interior ministries. The wave of attacks, [...]
IRAP’s Director Featured in CSM’s “30 Under 30″
The Christian Science Monitor acknowledges the achievements and promise of the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project, and the innovative, tenacious spirit of IRAP co-founder and director Becca Heller, committed to finding new ways to provide displaced persons with their basic legal rights. Read the Christian Science Monitor’s interview with Becca Heller in Thirty ideas from people [...]
A Year of Expediting
In her column World View, Trudy Rubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer highlights cases of deserving applicants whose visas have been inexplicably delayed. From her correspondence with IRAP director Becca Heller: “The US Embassy in Damascus was informed in January of 2011 that she needed emergency surgery for breast cancer,” wrote Heller. But it took 10 more [...]
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