Issue Areas

Special Immigrant Visas (SIV)
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Complementary Pathways

Family Reunification
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Private Sponsorship
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Protecting and Expanding U.S. Refugee Resettlement
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Asylum & Detention
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Climate Displacement

Featured Work: Family Reunification

Family reunification has emerged as a key route to safety for migrants at a time when traditional resettlement opportunities are shrinking. Family reunification programs have a large role to play in providing safe passage for hundreds of thousands of highly vulnerable refugees, including more than 150,000 unaccompanied refugee children around the world.

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2,700 Central American children to reunite with family thanks to IRAP's litigation

In The Courts

Learn more about IRAP’s past and current court challenges.

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Why Refugee Families Cannot Reunite

Afkab, a Somali refugee who was resettled in the United…

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Doe v. Mayorkas: Challenging the mass denial of refugee status to Iranian religious minorities

This class action lawsuit challenges the mass denial of refugee applications of nearly 90 Iranians of persecuted minority faiths who had traveled to Vienna to be processed under the Lautenberg Amendment.

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Iranian Religious Minorities (Lautenberg HIAS) Resources

This is a resource page for people of religious minority faiths who traveled to Vienna at the invitation of the U.S. government to apply for refugee status under the Lautenberg Amendment.

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JFS v. Trump: Challenging the refugee ban

IRAP filed this lawsuit on behalf of two resettlement agencies and several individual clients challenging the October 2017 refugee ban ordered by President Trump.

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SA v. Trump: Re-opening the Central American Minors parole program

IRAP filed this lawsuit on behalf of CASA and twelve children and parents challenging the Trump Administration’s 2017 termination of the Central American Minors (CAM) parole program.

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