In her column World View, Trudy Rubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer highlights cases of deserving applicants whose visas have been inexplicably delayed. From her correspondence with IRAP director Becca Heller: “The... read more →
Rev. Robert Chase, in an op-ed for Newsday, calls on Americans to remember, even as we rejoice in scenes of returning soldiers, the four million displaced Iraqis left behind. Chase... read more →
City Limits interviews IRAP translator and journalist Alaa Majeed and IRAP director Becca Heller about the challenges facing Iraqis who helped U.S. forces-- the threats they receive in Iraq, the... read more →
While USCIS continues to refine and improve the process of conducting security checks on Iraqi refugee and SIV applicants, Iraqis who worked for coalition forces, and even Iraqis connected to... read more →
Western officials feared that instability would worsen as U.S. troops left Iraq, but they hoped the political turmoil that was in the works even before the official withdrawal -- with... read more →
President Obama believes the U.S. is leaving behind a "stable and self-reliant Iraq." But as Shiite Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki demands that Kurdish leaders turn over Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi,... read more →
Several thousand Iraqis, PBS News reports, including many who helped the United States during the Iraq war, are caught in a grim race between death threats in their own country... read more →
Read IRAP's op-ed on refugee access to legal counsel appearing in the Christian Science Monitor here. Refugees applying for resettlement to the United States face an unknown and complicated legal system.... read more →
“I did it because I like my country and the Mahdi army was working for Iran,” Salam Hamrani, an Iraqi refugee in Cyprus, tells his good friend Trudy Rubin, columnist... read more →
In addition to the ordinary challenges of being a refugee in a country that hasn't ratified the 1951 Refugee Convention (and Iraq's neighbors have not), LGBTI refugees in Lebanon, Syria,... read more →