“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 →
Joe Coon, an Iraq War veteran, writes in the Oregonian about the struggle he went through to get his former interpreter and close friend, Bandar, safely to the United States... read more →
The DoD announces a new tool to help Iraqis who formerly worked for the United States contact their previous military or Defense supervisors. Potential SIV applicants who need to get... read more →
The Law Offices of Scott J Bloch, P.A. has initiated a class action law suit under the Defense Base Act to compensate American citizens and foreign citizens whose work on... read more →
Let the Obama Administration know that you believe the United States should protect and resettle Iraqi employees who risked their lives on our behalf. Unlike other on line petitions, this... read more →
A July 27th editorial in the Miami Herald said that if the U.S. government does not prioritize special immigrant visas, our country will “repeat a shameful practice of abandoning friends... read more →
In a July 24th piece, Trudy Rubin, Worldview columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, wrote that since her article on the U.S. obligation to admit more SIV cases ran last week,... read more →
In a recent Newsday editorial, Bob Keeler highlighted the United States’ obligation to welcome its borders to Iraqi refugees displaced by the Iraq War. “The refugee problem is ours,” he... read more →
Yesterday, a group of senators, led by Sen. Patrick Leahy, petitioned the Department of Homeland Security to release further information on the delays in processing for Special Immigrant Visas (SIV)... read more →
In his online column for the New Yorker, George Packer called the unnecessary delays in SIV processing a “tragedy” the Obama administration has the ability to prevent. “President Obama has... read more →