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Apr 6, 2022

Mohamud v. DHS: Challenging the continuing impact of the Muslim refugee ban

IRAP filed a lawsuit in partnership with a Somali family who were on the verge of being reunited the day the former Trump Administration issued its Muslim refugee ban.

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Mar 30, 2022

Hussein v. Jaddou: Challenging the delays in adjudicating I-730/Follow-To-Join Petition of Somali Family

IRAP filed this lawsuit in partnership with a Somali family whose reunification was still being affected by the Muslim refugee ban after it had ended.

Case

Oct 6, 2021

Mohammad v. Blinken: Protecting Afghan families in imminent danger

IRAP sued the State Department on behalf of Mohammad, an Afghan SIV applicant who requested—but did not receive—State Department protection for his sons trapped in Afghanistan.

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Jun 25, 2021

John Doe v. United States: Protecting access to the Afghan SIV program

IRAP filed a lawsuit on behalf of an Afghan civil engineer, “John Doe,” who worked in support of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan for many years at great personal risk.

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Oct 22, 2020

Adam v. Pompeo: Challenging the delays in adjudicating I-730/Follow-To-Join Petitions for Family Reunification

IRAP filed this lawsuit in partnership with two resettled Darfuri refugees who have been waiting for a decision on their petitions for their spouses and children to join them in the United States.

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Jul 21, 2020

CASA de Maryland v. Mayorkas: Protecting asylum seekers’ access to work authorization

This case challenged Trump-era rules that make it more difficult for asylum seekers to access work authorization (also known as “Employment Authorization Documents” or EADs).

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Jun 5, 2020

FOIA: Access to refugee applicant records

IRAP filed a lawsuit challenging USCIS’s policy of refusing to search the database it uses for refugee adjudications (called “WRAPS”) and claiming to have no records of refugee case files when responding to FOIA requests. Consistent with this policy, USCIS failed to produce a single document when IRAP requested its client’s refugee case file.

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Nov 21, 2019

HIAS v. Trump: Protecting refugees against state and local veto of resettlement

IRAP filed this lawsuit on behalf of three resettlement agencies challenging an Executive Order giving state and local officials the unprecedented power to refuse refugees being resettled in their jurisdictions.

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Feb 7, 2017

IRAP v. Trump: Continuing the fight against Trump’s Executive Orders banning nationals from certain Muslim-majority countries

IRAP was the named plaintiff in IRAP v. Trump, the first lawsuit to challenge both President Trump’s original and revised Executive Orders in their entirety.

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Jan 28, 2017

Darweesh v. Trump: Fighting back against Trump’s first Executive Order banning nationals from certain Muslim-majority countries

IRAP filed this first-in-the-nation challenge to President Trump’s first Executive Order banning entry of nationals from certain Muslim-majority countries.

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Feb 27, 2015

Nine Iraqi Allies v. Kerry: Challenging delays in deciding Special Immigrant Visa applications

IRAP filed this lawsuit on behalf of Afghan and Iraqi clients who had been waiting in dangerous situations for months, some for over five years, for their Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs).

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