On March 26, 2008 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced it would halt denials under the “material support” and “terrorism” bars in cases where the authority to waive these provisions exists, but has not yet been implemented by the Department of Homeland Security. Among the refugees and asylees who had been denied adjustment based on these sweeping “terrorism” provisions were some who opposed Saddam Hussein in the 1990s.

Read the letter to DHS Secretary Chertoff from Human Rights First and 18 groups

Read the March 23 Washington Post article and March 27 Washington Post article

For more information, see the March 2008 Asylum Newsletter and click here.