USCIS, Sept. 4, 2024 - "This notice is to tell you about a proposed Settlement Agreement of a class action lawsuit, J.O.P. et al. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, et al . , Case No. 8:19-cv-01944-SAG, pending in the United States District Court for...
State Department, June 13, 2024 " THIS NOTICE WILL BE UPDATED AS MORE INFORMATION COMES AVAILABLE. PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR FINAL INSTRUCTIONS NO LATER THAN AUGUST 2, 2024. NOTICE OF CLASS-WIDE RELIEF The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...
IMMpact Litigation, Apr. 25, 2024 "IMMpact Litigation, seeking redress for over 100,000 Ukrainian nationals paroled into the United States post-February 2022, today announces a significant advancement in their ongoing class action lawsuit against the United...
NILA, Apr. 24, 2024 "Today, three immigration attorneys and two individuals filed a prospective class action lawsuit in federal court, challenging U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) nationwide practice of failing to timely respond to requests...
ACLU New Mexico, Nov. 8, 2023 "A group of immigrants detained in inhumane conditions at New Mexico’s Torrance County Detention Facility (TCDF) is suing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for certifying a sham inspection in 2022 that allowed...
Matt Adams writes: "This week the district court granted preliminary approval to the proposed settlement submitted by the parties with respect to the Credible Fear Class. This class is focused on challenges to prolonged delays in making credible fear determinations...
DOJ, Oct. 16, 2023 "On Oct. 16, the United States reached a settlement in Ms. L., et al. v. ICE, et al. , a class action litigation filed in 2018 seeking injunctive relief relating to the separation of parents and children at the southwest border. The proposed...
Rafael Carranza, Arizona Republic, Sept. 8, 2023 "The U.S. government has reached a class-action settlement to speed up the asylum process for nearly 20,000 Afghans evacuated to the United States two years ago and who have been waiting for months for their...
My friend and mentor Richard S. Fischer has filed this lawsuit to try to recoup the $85 biometrics fees that USCIS stole from his clients.
NILA, NWIRP, Ira Kurzban, Aug. 28, 2023 "On Friday, a federal district court granted nationwide class certification to Temporary Protected Status (TPS) applicants seeking to enforce their statutory right to a work permit during the many months that they...
NILA, NWIRP, Mar. 9, 2023 "Today, four applicants who qualify for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), filed a national class action against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in federal district court in Seattle, Washington. The lawsuit challenges...
Matt Adams writes: "Last month NWIRP and the Alaska Immigration Justice Project filed a class action challenging the USCIS policy requiring U visa applicants for adjustment of status to file a medical exam, form I-693, even though they are not subject to the...
On January 23, 2023 a class action lawsuit was filed in Seattle regarding delays in adjudicating unlawful presence waivers: Guevara Enriquez v. USCIS . On January 20, 2023 a class action lawsuit was filed in D.C. regarding ICE's publication of private information...
Owino v. CoreCivic "The opinion filed June 3, 2022, Owino v. CoreCivic, Inc., 36 F.4th 839 (9th Cir. 2022) is amended and superceded by the opinion filed concurrently with this order. The full court has been advised of the petition for rehearing en banc...
Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED, July 16, 2022 "A multi-billion dollar private prison company has allegedly maximized profits by coercing immigrant detainees locked up at two of its facilities in California to work for $1 a day, according to a class action...