CASE PROSPECTUS:

This group lawsuit is an opportunity for Iranian Employment Based visa applicants to challenge:

(1) their unreasonable delays in Administrative Processing (“AP”), and  

(2) the legality of Trump’s June 4, 2025 Travel ban (“PP 10949”) which became effective on June 9, 2025. 

We will be filing this lawsuit in a U.S. District Court to be determined by attorney.

Important Dates:

Deadline to participate:  Friday, November 28, 2025, 11:59 PST | EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 5TH

Filing date for complaint:  (On or about) Monday, December 15, 2025 

To participate in this lawsuit, the Iranian Visa Applicant must: 

(1) be in an Employment Based visa category (EB1, EB2, EB2-NIW, or EB3), and 

(2) have attended an immigrant visa interview prior to Sunday, June 8, 2025. (6 months or more before we file the lawsuit). 

Important disclosures: 

1) It is preferred that participants are member of ethnic or religious minorities, and thus, eligible for a minority exception under PP 10949. That is because accelerating visa adjudications of ethnic or religious minorities could result in visa issuances with the “Excepted from the Proclamation” that would allow them to enter the US.

2) Of the two judges to weigh in our challenges to PP 10949 so far, both found PP 10949 to be lawful as an entry ban, but not as a visa issuance ban. (The text of 8 U.S. Code § 1182(f) only gives the president the authority to suspend entry.)

In the first of those two challenges, Thein v Trump (a group lawsuit for Diversity Visa applicants), many Iranian plaintiffs were issued visas. Some with notations that indicated that they were “Subject to the Proclamation,” but many with notations that indicated that they were “Excepted from the Proclamation” because consular officers found them eligible for minority exceptions.    

3) We are offering this group lawsuit because we believe in helping people fight for what they want, and we will fight hard to advocate for you. But we also want to be transparent: while we are hopeful and committed, we cannot promise success. A lawsuit involves uncertainty, and court decisions are ultimately beyond our control.

Further, it is important for participants to understand that litigation takes time. It would not be realistic to expect the lawsuit to have a positive outcome within the first few months. Very often lawsuits challenging government policies take a year or even longer to reach the stage where plaintiffs see an outcome.

Cost to Participate 

The attorney fee to participate as plaintiffs in the lawsuit will be $4,000 for each Employment Based category primary visa applicant. The terms will be $2,000 initial payment, and the remaining $2,000 payment will be deferred until the primary visa applicant enters the US. 

This fee includes the cost of participation of all derivative beneficiaries regardless of family size.  

How to participate: 

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