US EditionState Department sued over immigrant visa ban affecting 75 countries
Civil rights groups claim the visa pause unlawfully discriminates by nationality and disrupts family reunification and employment-based immigration for nationals of 75 countries.
- On Monday, a group of civil-rights organizations and U.S. citizens filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York challenging the U.S. Department of State's suspension affecting nationals of 75 countries.
- The State Department says the suspension began on Jan. 21 to strengthen vetting and screen migrants who might rely on public benefits, but plaintiffs argue the public‑charge rationale is a pretext rooted in immigrant stereotyping.
- Consular offices stopped issuing immigrant visas, leaving petitioners and families stranded, including a physician and endocrinologist from Colombia denied an EB‑1A "Einstein Visa" last week due to the ban, while the complaint alleges the Department imposed a nationality-based ban that violates legal protections.
- The pause threatens employment‑based immigrants and their employers, the complaint says, warning of long‑term harm to immigrants, U.S. employers, and the American public while plaintiffs' legal teams vow to seek relief in court.
- Plaintiffs warn the suspension risks undoing decades of settled immigration law, arguing the U.S. Department of State unlawfully blacklists nations and rewrites the public‑charge statute Congress rejected.
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Legal Challenge Filed Over Sweeping Suspension of Immigrant Visas
A coalition of U.S. citizens, immigrant families, and nonprofit organizations has filed a federal lawsuit to challenge the Trump administration's suspension of immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries, arguing that the policy is discriminatory and violates federal immigration law. The post Legal Challenge Filed Over Sweeping Suspension of Immigrant Visas appeared first on The Washington Informer.
State Department sued over immigrant visa ban affecting 75 countries
The State Department was sued Tuesday by would-be immigrants who argue the Trump administration ran afoul of the law when barring immigrant visas for 75 different countries. The Monday suit targets a January decision by the Trump administration to pause processing for immigrant visas, arguing people from those countries may end up relying on welfare. …
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