April 15, 2013 “Washington D.C. – The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security have agreed to settle a nationwide class action lawsuit challenging the denial of work authorization to asylum seekers who have been waiting six months or more for a decision on their asylum applications. If approved by a federal judge, […]
The Legal Action Center (“LAC”), working with the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, has challenged on multiple occasions the “departure bar,” a regulation that precludes noncitizen aliens from filing a motion to reopen or reconsider a removal case by aliens after they have left the United States. The problem with the “departure […]
On July 20, 2010 American Immigration Council’s Legal Action Center filed a lawsuit at the U.S. District Court for District of Columbia against the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and against the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS) on behalf of AILA, the American Immigration Lawyers Association. This was a result of Freedom […]
