75-Country Pause Lawsuit

This group lawsuit is an opportunity for Family-based and Employment-Based Immigrant Visa applicants to challenge the legality of the State Department’s January 14, 2026 pause of all visa issuances to immigrant visa applicants who are nationals of the following countries:

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, The Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyz Republic, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, and Yemen 
See: Immigrant Visa Processing Updates for Nationalities at High Risk of Public Benefits Usage.

We will be filing this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Important Dates

Deadline to participate: February 6, 2026

Filing date for complaint: February 20, 2026

These are firm deadlines.

To participate in this lawsuit, a participant must:

1) be the primary applicant of an Immigrant Visa application in the Employment or Family-Based categories, and not a DV-2026 selectee. (DV-2026 selectees should explore this opportunity.)

2) have already submitted a DS-260 and have an Immigrant Visa Case Number, and

3) not be a participant in another lawsuit challenging the 75-country pause.

Important disclosure

Important note for prospective participants who are citizens of travel ban countries due to Proclamation 10949 and 10998. (Those countries include: Afghanistan, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Gabon, The Gambia, Iran, Laos, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Palestinian Authority, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe).

This group lawsuit will not challenge these 2 travel bans as unlawful. That is not the focus of this lawsuit. Thus, if you are a citizen of a travel ban country, and you choose to participate in this group lawsuit, understand that even with the best outcome, this group lawsuit will only remove one obstacle you face.

Cost to Participate

The attorney fee to participate as plaintiffs in the lawsuit will be $2,000 for each primary applicant. This fee includes the cost of participation of all derivative beneficiaries regardless of family size.

For terms of payment, $1,000 will be due in advance of the representation to onboard as a plaintiff. The remaining $1,000 will be due only after entry into the US, and payable in monthly payments of $250 per month.

How to participate

Onboarding for this lawsuit is automated. Please join our interest list to be notified when onboarding will start again:

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Are visa applicants from any other visa categories other than Employment or Family-Based immigrant visa categories eligible to participate in this lawsuit?

No. Only applicants in Employment or Family-Based immigrant visa categories are eligible to participate.

2. What is the purpose of this lawsuit?

The purpose of this lawsuit is to end State Department’s pause on visa issuances for our clients.

3. What is the deadline to join this lawsuit?

The deadline for joining the lawsuit is February 6, 2026. That deadline is concrete and will not be extended. However, keep in mind that the earlier plaintiffs join the lawsuit, the better we can integrate our plaintiffs’ facts into our arguments, which will result in a stronger and more convincing lawsuit. If everyone joins at the last minute, we will have less time to prepare the best possible lawsuit. Time is of the essence, and we appreciate all those who choose to participate early.

4. Where will this group lawsuit be filed?

This litigation will be filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Note: there is no guarantee as to which judge we will be assigned. The assignment of our judge is unknown and will remain unknown until after the lawsuit is filed. Based on our experience with related cases, judge assignments may change more than once in the initial weeks of the case, before being finally assigned to a judge who will preside over the case to conclusion.

5. Are you willing to communicate with the embassy regarding my case process?

No. Representation will not include consular processing support.

6. What are the attorney fees for family of two or more?

The fee for all families is the same. We only charge the primary applicant. We do not charge extra fee for derivative spouse or children. Further, in the situation of two IR5 parent applicants, we only charge for the first one and the second parent is no charge.

7. Do former clients of Morrison Urena get a discount to participate in 75-country pause lawsuit?

No. We appreciate your loyalty, but the answer is no.

Our fees for these group lawsuit are very reasonable, and two-tier pricing causes us operational and communication challenges that we do not have the capacity to deal with right now.

8. Is the litigation guaranteed to win?

Absolutely NOT. No litigation is ever guaranteed.

9. Will this be a class action lawsuit?

No.

10. I already attended my interview, and my case was refused under 221(g). Am I eligible to participate?

Yes.

11. I already attended my interview, and my case was refused under 212(f) pursuant to the presidential proclamation suspending entry. Am I eligible to participate?

Yes, but see important disclosure above. This group lawsuit will not challenge legality of PP 10949 or PP 10998.

12. I already joined another group lawsuit for the 39 country ban. Do I need to also join a 75-country pause group lawsuit?

Your participation in another lawsuit that does not challenge the 75-country pause is extremely unlikely to result in removing the 75-country pause as an obstacle.

So if you wanted to do everything you can to remove obstacles, we recommend participating in our 75-country pause lawsuit, too.

Note: understand our 75-country pause lawsuit will not be challenging the 39 country ban. So a path to issuance here would likely require both lawsuits to have success.

13. What if 75-country pause is lifted prior to filing the complaint?

If the 75-country pause is lifted before we file the complaint on February 20, we will issue refunds of initial fee less a small convenience fee to cover our merchant services costs and time spent working on case so far.

FOR QUESTIONS NOT ANSWERED ABOVE, CONTACT US:

ENGLISH

Curtis Lee Morrison

Telegram: https://telegram.im/@curtisatlaw

Whatsapp: https://wa.me/17146613446

ALBANIAN

Florian - Whatsapp: https://wa.me/19294539176

ARABIC

Lubna - Telegram: https://telegram.im/@Lubna_Alhammami

FARSI

Farshad - Whatsapp: https://wa.me/18595509377

https://telegram.im/@Farshad_Amirkhani