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A D.C. federal judge Thursday blocked a U.S. State Department policy that gave diversity visas lower priority, directing the government to “undertake good-faith efforts” to process the 2021 visa lottery cohort before a Sept. 30 deadline.
Fifteen foreign nationals have been issued visas after challenging the Trump administration’s travel ban in federal court. These include nine Iranians and six Syrians, who have been granted visas and are in the process of joining family members […]
A U.S. judge has set aside roughly 7,000 visas allowing people who won a lottery aimed at increasing the country’s diversity to try to go to the United States after the government issued only a fraction of the visas allocated for the past year.
The families in the lawsuit – referred to as Tesfaye vs Blinken – say the US government is unlawfully withholding their visa-hearing process by refusing to reassign the cases to other embassies away from the ones in Khartoum and Addis Ababa […]
To obtain an immigrant visa—the precursor to a green card or legal permanent residence—applicants must travel for an in-person interview with a consular officer. This crucial step is routine in many countries. In others, applicants may have to travel a great distance […]
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is reinstating the status of some international students whose records they terminated on a Department of Homeland Security database, court records suggest. […]
Mohammed Al Zabidi celebrated in 2017 when he learned he had been selected in the U.S. green card lottery, which picks people at random from a large pool of applicants. It was a chance to escape his war-torn homeland of Yemen and pursue his […]
A graduate student at Ohio State University is suing the Trump administration, alleging his F-1 visa was revoked because of his participation in pro-Palestine protests. Ahwar Sultan and the OSU chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine […]
A D.C. federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to stop requiring Diversity Visa lottery winners who fall under regional travel restrictions to undergo a 14-day out-of-country quarantine before they obtain their green cards.
A D.C. federal judge sympathized Thursday with the Biden administration’s claim that the buildup to the Russia-Ukraine conflict complicated the processing of diversity visas, but she also criticized the government for trying to lower the bar for […]
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