Successful Lawsuit Against US Consulate Jerusalem

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 over two years causing the couple to remain separated unnecessarily – the husband living in the United States and the wife remaining in Palestine.  The consulate claimed the application was undergoing necessary “administrative processing.”  Attorney Nimer filed a mandamus lawsuit in the Federal Court for the District of Columbia against the consulate and the U.S. Department of State in order to force the consulate to process the application.  The lawsuit was successfully resolved three months later with the wife receiving her visa enabling her to travel to the U.S. to be reunited with her husband.  The couple said they are “extremely grateful that a two and a half year struggle is finally over.”