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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 [...]
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 [...]
The Troops Can Come Home, But the Refugees Can’t
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 of resettling in the U.S. amid a massive security check backlog, and, for the lucky few who make it, the adjustment to a new [...]
IRAP in the Boston Herald: U.S. Inaction Betrays Iraqi Allies
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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