This holiday season, more than 5,000 children across the United States wrote to President Obama asking for him to make their wish a reality: that no more families be torn apart by deportation and detention.
This article featured in Business Law Today about the benefits and invaluable experience that pro bono asylum work provides for transactional attorneys, and the special contributions transactional attorneys can make in this area is written by Chad Doobay, one of NIJC’s dedicated pro bono attorney partners. via Business Law Today Transactional Attorneys and Pro Bono Asylum Work–A Better Match Than…
On August 9th, 2011, the National Immigrant Justice Center and pro bono attorneys from McDermott Will & Emery LLP obtained asylum for a woman from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) based on the harm that she suffered as a victim of sex trafficking.
On August 26, 2011, NIJC filed an amicus brief in support of the asylum application of Mei Fun Wong.
The revelation that the woman who accused former International Monetary Fund Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of rape had allegedly lied on an asylum application has given the news media a new angle to cover immigration in America.
After more than six years fighting his case in immigration court, Rashed Binrashed, an asylum seeker and NIJC client, finally won his case.
Testimony of Rashed BinRashed Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Hearing on the Human Rights and Deportation and Detention Policies of Migrants in the United States March 28, 2011 Following a civil war in my native country of Yemen, I came to the United States as a teenager seeking asylum.
(October 2010) — The right to seek asylum from persecution is a fundamental and long-recognized human right.
(Fall 2009) — When asylum seekers arrive at a U.S. airport or other port of entry and tell immigration officials they are afraid to return to their native countries, under current U.S. immigration policies they are arrested and detained, often for months, without an opportunity to ask for release.
