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A Year of Expediting

By Kate N on January 5, 2012

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 [...]

Categorized as: Blog, Press Links
Tagged as: Becca Heller, expedite, IRAP, Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project, SIV, Special Immigrant Visa, Trudy Rubin

IRAP in the Boston Herald: U.S. Inaction Betrays Iraqi Allies

By Kate N on January 2, 2012

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 on the promise the United States made to our Iraqi allies– a promise embodied in the Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act of [...]

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Tagged as: airlift, appeal, expedite, Guam, IRAP, Iraqi refugee, security check backlog, SIV, Special Immigrant Visa

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