Issue Areas

Special Immigrant Visas (SIV)

Complementary Pathways

Family Reunification

Protecting and Expanding U.S. Refugee Resettlement

Asylum & Detention

Climate Displacement

Disability Inclusion and Accessibility

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.

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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Pacito v. Trump: Challenging Trump’s suspension of USRAP

IRAP filed a class action lawsuit representing a group of individual plaintiffs and several refugee resettlement agencies seeking to halt President Trump’s Executive Order suspending refugee resettlement.

Suazo-Muller v. Noem: Ensuring access to attorneys for immigrants detained at Guantánamo

IRAP filed a lawsuit demanding that immigrants detained at Guantánamo Bay be allowed access to attorneys.

Luna Gutierrez v. Noem: Stopping the offshore detention of immigrants at Guantánamo Bay

IRAP filed a lawsuit to challenge the Trump administration’s detention of immigrants at Guantánamo Bay.

Dahlia Doe v. Noem: Challenging the government’s termination of TPS for Syrians

IRAP filed a representing a group of individual plaintiffs seeking to halt the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Syria.

Afghan and Iraqi Allies v. Rubio: Challenging systemic delays in deciding Special Immigrant Visa applications

IRAP filed this class action challenge to systemic delays in deciding Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) applications of Afghans and Iraqis whose lives are at risk because of their work supporting U.S. efforts in their home countries.