SIV - Tag Archive
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 [...]
“Is this the best we can do for those who aided us in Iraq?”
“I did it because I like my country and the Mahdi army was working for Iran,” Salam Hamrani, an Iraqi refugee in Cyprus, tells his good friend Trudy Rubin, columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Then he continues: “I made trouble for my family by trusting the Americans. I worked with the Americans for no money, [...]
“Whatever one’s views of this war, we should agree that our country has a responsibility to Iraqi interpreters”
Joe Coon, an Iraq War veteran, writes in the Oregonian about the struggle he went through to get his former interpreter and close friend, Bandar, safely to the United States on a Special Immigrant Visa. Far beyond following the simple steps set forth in the SIV procedure guidelines, it was only through arduous paperwork, a [...]
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