Trudy Rubin - 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 [...]
Increased Security Checks Prevent Iraqis Who Aided U.S. Forces From Obtaining Visas
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 of obtaining a visa. As Becca Heller, IRAP director, points out, 5,000 visas have been set aside each year since 2008 [...]
“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, [...]
IRAP Director on Philadelphia NPR
On July 25th, IRAP Director, Becca Heller, was featured on Philadelphia’s WHYY radio station, an affiliate of National Public Radio, to discuss delays in SIVs for Iraqis who helped the U.S. government. Heller was joined by Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Trudy Rubin and List Project director Kirk Johnson. Listen to an mp3 of the broadcast here.
IRAP in the Philadelphia Inquirer: Support Our Iraqi Allies
In a July 24th piece, Trudy Rubin, Worldview columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, wrote that since her article on the U.S. obligation to admit more SIV cases ran last week, she has received emails from Iraqis in peril. An Iraqi interpreter told Rubin over the phone, “In 2010 my car windows were broken in front [...]
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