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…
F.A. invested $500,000 in an American construction project and subsequently applied for an EB-5 Immigrant Investor visa in March 2017. F.A. and her husband, A.Z., were interviewed at a U.S. Embassy on August 6, 2017. Much to their dismay, Presidential Proclamation 9645 was implemented just a few months later, barring their immigration to the United…
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…
F.N., an American citizen married the love of his life, an Iranian citizen on January 17, 2017. Like most newlyweds, they were overjoyed and full of hope for their future. Just a few months later F.N. applied for an immigrant visa for his wife. The couple waited patiently for the interview date and then again…
F.N., an American citizen married the love of his life who is an Iranian citizen on January 17, 2017. Like most newlyweds, they were overjoyed and full of hope for their future and thus just a few months later F.N. applied for an immigrant visa for his wife. The couple waited patiently for the interview…
M.S. applied for an immigrant visa in 2016 on behalf of her Iranian citizen mother, E.T. Mother and daughter waited patiently for three years and two months for the issuance of the visa before contacting Nimer Law. During this time, whenever they inquired about the case status, they were told it was pending “administrative processing.”…
U.B. resided in the United States for thirteen years as a student and later began working as an engineer. When it came time to renew his H-1B visa, U.B. traveled to India with his wife and children for a short vacation and his visa interview. Instead they were inexplicably stranded in India for 120 days,…
P.T. was awarded a hard-earned admission to a premier academic institution in the United States. He was incredibly excited and immediately applied for a student visa to travel to the United States from Iran. Unfortunately, his happiness was short-lived as P.T. found himself waiting for the adjudication of his visa for over six months after…
N.B. came to the United States in 2014 on a student visa and has since studied, worked, and resided in the United States. On August 23, 2018, N.B. routinely applied for a renewal for her H-1B visa and appeared for her mandatory visa interview in India on December 9, 2018. N.B. was newlywed and hoped…
A.F. is an American citizen who filed an immigrant petition on behalf of her Iranian parents in June of 2017. On September 24, 2017, A.F.’s mother and father were interviewed, and on the very same day President Trump signed Presidential Proclamation 9645. A.F.’s mother was approved on the same day of their visa interview, however,…
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 filed an emergency lawsuit on behalf of Shaima Swileh, a Yemeni mother who was stuck in Cairo waiting on her immigrant visa to be approved so she could travel to California and be with her dying son. Her visa was delayed due to the travel ban which prohibits the entry of Yemeni nationals…
Dr. A is a brilliant and talented doctor from Turkey who was awarded a prestigious fellowship at a cancer center in Florida. Due to the embassy’s unreasonable delay in issuing his J-1 visa, he was going to lose his fellowship if he could not travel to the US in time to begin. Dr. A and…
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…
We successfully resolved a lawsuit against the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem for unreasonably delaying an immigrant visa for the Palestinian wife of a U.S. citizen. The couple was married in 2015 and promptly filed the appropriate applications immediately thereafter. Once USCIS sent the application to the US Consulate in Jerusalem it sat unadjudicated for well…
