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About 30,000 Iraqi refugees - many of whom served with U.S. forces and contractors during the war - are stuck waiting for heightened security checks before they can be resettled in the U.S., according...
Gay and "emo" youths in Iraq are in serious danger: between 14 and 40 youths have been murdered in recent weeks - many bludgeoned with cement blocks in an allusion to the traditional stonings meted out...
IRAP Director Becca Heller and other advocates met with the Deputy National Security Advisor to discuss the "dramatic" slowing of the resettlement of Iraqi refugees, a USA Today story reports. In ...
Becca Heller, IRAP's co-founder and director, spoke briefly with the Washington Examiner about why IRAP was created, what IRAP does, and what she's working on now. Here's a short excerpt from the interview...
A New York Times editorial reminds us that The United States has a "moral obligation" to screen Iraqi asylum applicants transparently and quickly - especially those who risked their lives to help Americans...
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...
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...
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...
City Limits interviews IRAP translator and journalist Alaa Majeed and IRAP director Becca Heller about the challenges facing Iraqis who helped U.S. forces-- the threats they receive in Iraq, the difficulties...
In an op-ed appearing in today's Boston Herald, Matias Sueldo and Natlie Bowlus outline the immediate steps that the Obama administration should take to fix a broken SIV admissions system and make good...
Yesterday on "Here & Now" NPR interviewed Alaa, who worked for western media organizations in Baghdad and who now works with the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project in New York, and Hayder, a former...
Several thousand Iraqis, PBS News reports, including many who helped the United States during the Iraq war, are caught in a grim race between death threats in their own country and the cumbersome process...
Read IRAP's op-ed on refugee access to legal counsel appearing in the Christian Science Monitor here.
Refugees applying for resettlement to the United States face an unknown and complicated legal system...
Michael Breen, Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project co-founder and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, reminds us today in the Guardian that as we welcome the homecoming of our soldiers in Iraq, we must do more...
An Iraqi translator for U.S. forces whose first name is Tariq describes his move away from the relative safety of his military base in anticipation of U.S. troop withdrawal, and his fear, every day, of...
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