A.Y. is an Iranian citizen who was offered a highly prestigious research position at the University of California Berkeley School of Law. This opportunity was a momentous occasion and opportunity in her life and thus A.Y. and her husband filed for J-1 and J-2 visas at the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan, in order to travel…
A.G. had been working and residing in the United States with his family for the past seven years. On August 19, 2019, A.G. applied for the renewal of an H-1B visa which was pending at a U.S. Consulate for over 120 days after his visa interview. Due to the delay, A.G. was stranded abroad in…
Nimer Law announced today the resolution of a lawsuit against the US Embassy in Abu Dhabi, the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security and the Secretary of State for wrongfully failing to issue an EB-1 visa for an Iranian dentist which was approved during an injunction on the travel ban. The lawsuit, filed…
On April 9, Nimer Law filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Embassy in Mumbaii, India for the delay in issuance of a renewal H-1B visa for a long time employee of a U.S. company. The plaintiff had been residing in the U.S. since 2007 first as a student and then in valid H-1B status when…
Our firm is pleased to announce that we have successfully resolved a lawsuit against the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon for the unreasonable delay in visa issuance to a Syrian young man who was separated from his parents and siblings for eight years.
An Iranian fiance of a U.S. citizen was successfully granted a travel ban waiver after Nimer Law filed a federal lawsuit on the couple’s behalf. K.R., a U.S. citizen living in Oklahoma, and his Iranian fiance, S.H., had been trying to obtain a K-1 fiance visa since they first got engaged in 2016. S.H. was…
Nimer Law LLC announced today that it has successfully resolved another citizenship delay lawsuit. The suit, filed in federal court for the Southern District of Ohio, was on behalf of a naturalization applicant from Kosovo whose application had been pending with USCIS for over three years. Nimer Law filed a lawsuit in conjunction with Simakovsky…
Nimer Law LLC announced today that it has successfully resolved a green card delay lawsuit. The suit, filed in Federal court for the Western District of Washington, was on behalf of a husband and wife, whose green card applications had been pending for over two years without adjudication. They had no criminal history and had…
On February 20, Nimer Law filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India for the delay in issuance of an H-4 visa for a 16-year-old child of H-1B physician and dentist parents. The family had been residing in the U.S. since 2006 in valid H-1B status when they traveled to India in…
Nimer Law is pleased to announce the successful resolution of another immigration delay lawsuit – in this case for an Iranian scientist in the EB2 category. The EB2 Green Card is for aliens who have demonstrated “exceptional ability” and is highly desirable because it can offer a relatively fast route to permanent U.S. residence. However,…
Nimer Law filed a mandamus lawsuit (also called writ of mandamus) against the Department of State, the US Embassy in Hyderabad, India and various government officials on behalf of an applicant for an H-1B renewal visa that was stuck in administrative processing for eight months. During that time, our client was unable to return to…
We are pleased to announce that one of our clients, a refugee from Uzbekistan, was finally approved for citizenship after his prior application was denied. When he applied again his second naturalization application was delayed for nearly two years. Attorney Nimer filed a lawsuit for the delay and was able to finally get the client…
We are happy to announce that we have resolved another F-1 visa delay lawsuit for an Iranian student who was stuck in administrative processing for nearly eight months. She had traveled to Paris for a summer abroad program and was unable to get back to the US when her visa expired and the U.S. embassy…
Nimer Law filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Iranian spouse of a U.S. citizen whose case had been stuck in administrative processing for eight months. After filing of the lawsuit, the embassy granted the waiver and the spousal visa was issued. The couple is happy to finally be reunited after spending months apart waiting…
DM is an Iranian PhD student who was in the US studying and working with a prestigious company on his OPT training. He had to go home to Iran for a family emergency and when he applied for a new F-1 stamp to reenter the U.S and resume his OPT he was surprised that he…
This was a case of an extremely unreasonable delay in processing the immigrant visa applications for four minor children of a U.S. legal permanent resident. The applications sat unadjudicated for almost four years, causing the family to remain separated unnecessarily – with the parents living in the United States and the children remaining in Pakistan. Attorney Nimer filed…
A female Muslim physician, who immigrated to the United States through her employer and had been a lawful permanent resident since 2011, experienced a two year delay in her citizenship application. USCIS initially fingerprinted her twice and scheduled her interview, but then cancelled her interview without explanation. After her interview was cancelled, she was unable to…
A U.S. citizen, originally from Somalia, experienced a 16-month delay after applying for his passport. He inquired multiple times as to the delay, even flying to the Minnesota passport agency to be interviewed, but could not get any information as to why his passport was not being renewed. Attorney Nimer filed a lawsuit requesting the…
Eleven refugee green card applicants – including several children, waited nearly three years for adjudication of their green card applications. Attorney Nimer filed a mandamus lawsuit for the entire group and was able to obtain approval for all eleven plaintiffs within several months of filing.
A Syrian asylee and professor at a major U.S. university applied for derivative asylum status for his son. Due to “administrative processing,” the application sat unadjudicated for nearly eighteen months after the son was interviewed at the embassy in Ankara, Turkey. The son, who could not return to Syria, was forced to await adjudication in…
A U.S. citizen, originally from Yemen, filed an I-130 application for his new wife so that she could come from Yemen to live with him in the U.S. The application was delayed for several years. Attorney Nimer filed a mandamus lawsuit and got the wife approved.
