Afghan Group Lawsuit
This lawsuit is an opportunity for families of Afghan Visa Applicants (in Immediate Relative and SIV categories) to challenge the legality of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s November 28, 2025 Suspension of Visas for Afghan Passport Holders.
We will be filing this lawsuit in a U.S. District Court to be determined by attorney.
Important Dates
Deadline to participate: Friday, January 2, 2026, 11:59 PST
Filing date for complaint: On or about Friday, January 16, 2026
To participate in this lawsuit, the Visa Applicant(s) in the family must:
(1) be an Afghan passport holder with a pending visa application in the CR/IR1, IR2, IR5 or SIV categories;
(2) have completed and submitted a DS-260 immigrant visa application, and
(3) not be a plaintiff in other litigation regarding their visa application.
Important disclosures
We are pursuing this group lawsuit because we believe in your right to a fair outcome, and we will fight hard to advocate for you. But we also want to be transparent: while we’re hopeful and committed, we cannot promise success. Litigation carries uncertainty, and court decisions are ultimately beyond our control. We ask that all participants join with hope, but also with realistic expectations about what legal action can and cannot achieve.
Additionally, 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. Lawsuits challenging government policies can take a year or even longer to reach the stage where plaintiffs see a final outcome.
Cost to Participate
The attorney fee to participate as plaintiffs in the lawsuit will be $3,000 for each Primary Visa Applicant. This fee includes the cost of participation of all derivative beneficiaries regardless of family size.
An initial payment of attorney fees of $1,500 is due in advance of the representation. Additional payment of $1,500 is due on March 1, 2026.
How to participate
Onboarding for this lawsuit is automated. Visit this link to get started:
FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 2026, 11:59 PST
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At minimum, we will be challenging Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s November 28, 2025 cable, 25 STATE 108252:
(1) as an unlawful withholding of decisions under the Administrative Procedures Act, 5 U.S.C. § 706;
(2) as unlawful national origin discrimination under the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 USC § 1152(a)(1)(A), and
(3) as an unlawful abuse of the Secretary of State’s power of visa issuances under the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 USC § 1104.
We want the court to enjoin, or cancel, the Afghan ban as it is applied to our participating plaintiffs.
We have not decided yet. We will decide after all plaintiffs are onboarded, because only then we will know what our options are. It is possible that the litigation will be filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where the State Department prefers to be sued. But it is also possible we will file the lawsuit in the court district where one or more petitioners live.
The assignment of our judge is unknown and will remain unknown until after the lawsuit is filed. Also, 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.
If we file the lawsuit in a court district where there is already a similar lawsuit filed, there is a good chance that our lawsuit will be assigned to the same judge as the first lawsuit.
No. Representation will not include consular processing support. However, you may hire us to handle this as an additional service.
The fee for all families is the same. We only charge for the Primary Visa Applicant. We do not charge extra fee for derivative spouse or children.
No. No litigation is ever guaranteed. Plus, that is not our goal. Our goal will always be the issuance of visas to our clients.
We currently do not plan or expect to file a motion for class certification in this lawsuit. However, if the judge suggests it, or the judge is hesitant to give relief because it is not a class action lawsuit, we will revisit that issue.
FOR QUESTIONS NOT ANSWERED ABOVE, CONTACT US:
ENGLISH
Everyone, but also Curtis Lee Morrison
Telegram: https://telegram.im/@curtisatlaw
Whatsapp: https://wa.me/17146613446
Rabea – Telegram: https://telegram.im/@RabeaK
FARSI:
Farshad: https://wa.me/18595509377
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