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Based on generous input from Tahirih clients, staff, and external partners and more than a year’s worth of program planning, we are now excited to roll out a new centralized intake line and case acceptance process across all five of our offices starting November 2023. Through this new centralized intake line, all service seekers will be able to reach Tahirih using one number and will be able to experience the same high-quality, survivor-centered, and holistic service delivery, regardless of their location. We know that it takes a lot of courage for survivors to make the first call to ask for help, and our goal is to be timely and trauma-informed to all our callers, who may only get one chance to reach out for help.
Learn more about what service seekers can expect when they call us in this handout.
On September 8, 2023, EOIR published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that largely rescinds a deeply problematic 2020 rule that eviscerated due process protections for noncitizens in the appellate process. The 2020 Rule was enjoined in federal litigation in which Tahirih was a party. This new Proposed Rule reverses the harmful 2020 Rule and clarifies the availability of administrative closure and termination for certain noncitizens. Tahirih welcomes this Proposed Rule and urges its prompt finalization in order to promote clarity for immigration advocates and due process for noncitizens in removal.
USCIS recently published guidance regarding rescheduling biometrics appointments. Biometrics are required for most immigration benefits, and the new guidance provides clarity on how to reschedule these appointments and the consequences of failure to timely reschedule. The Tahirih Justice Center submitted feedback encouraging USCIS to consider and account for the disparate impact of the guidance on survivor applicants for immigration benefits.
From May 10-12, 2023, Tahirih was part of a delegation of human, civil, and immigrants’ rights leaders led by the Haitian Bridge Alliance. The delegation visited the Texas Rio Grande Valley and the Mexican state of Tamaulipas to bear witness to the end of the Title 42 policy and the implementation of punitive policies along the border, including the Biden administration’s new asylum ban. Lives at Risk: Barriers and Harms As Biden Asylum Ban Takes Effect is the delegation’s joint report on their findings.
On April 7, Tahirih and pro bono counsel Orrick filed a lawsuit against USCIS for its failure to timely process asylum applications. The seventeen Tahirih clients who are plaintiffs in the litigation filed their applications at least five years ago and continue to await adjudication, despite the completion of many later-filed applications. Delays in asylum adjudication compound the stress and hardship of survivors, and Tahirih and Orrick look forward to vindicating the rights of these survivors to timely adjudication of their meritorious claims for relief.
The Tahirih Justice Center submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice in response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Circumvention of Lawful Pathways
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