Lawsuit against the U.S. Embassy Ankara

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 Turkey.  He was separated from his mother, father and younger siblings, could not go to university and didn’t have meaningful work.  Attorney Nimer filed a lawsuit and got the son approved for travel within three months.  The son has now joined his parents and siblings in Columbus, Ohio and is very grateful that he was able to find someone to help him get safely to the U.S.