 Click here to read the article from Vox based on newly obtained documents from the U.S. Department of State, showing how difficult it is to qualify for a Travel Ban waiver.
Immigrant Rights Groups Sue U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Over the Backlog of Citizenship ApplicationsBacklog in Applications Prevents Over 750,000 Immigrants From Becoming Citizens and Voting! (WASHINGTON, D.C.)- On Citizenship Day, September 17, as the...
Pars Equality Center’s employee, Goharek Garmemasihi, mentioned in Los Angeles Times in connection with the case brought on behalf of Iranian religious minorities who applied for refugee status through the Vienna-based Lautenberg program: CLICK HERE.
Pars Equality Center was featured in Public News Service in connection with the class action lawsuit filed on August 1, 2018, challenging the travel ban waiver process: CLICK HERE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Pars Equality Center v. Pompeo Seattle, Wash. — August 1, 2018 — In response to the June 26 U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the Trump administration’s Muslim travel ban, Asian...
(San Jose, CA) – Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California sided with plaintiffs in Doe v. Nielsen, which challenges the mass denials of Iranian religious minority refugees who abandoned their homes in Iran and...
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States reversed an injunction blocking the enforcement of the Travel Ban, affirming the executive’s broad power to make immigration policy. The Court’s decision will allow the...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen announced that he successfully secured language as part of the Fiscal Year 2019 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act that would ensure that the public has access to...
On Friday, June 22 at 9am,the Northern District of California in San Jose will hear a case brought on behalf of Iranian religious minorities who applied for refugee status through the Vienna-based Lautenberg program and were denied en masse “as a...