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Browse our publications to learn more about how we support immigrant survivors of gender-based violence through service in communities, courts, and Congress.

  • Comment Filed: BIA Rule on Appellate Procedures and Administrative Closure

    • Publication Date: October 13, 2023
    • Publication Categories: Comments

    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.

  • Feedback on USCIS Policy Alert PA-2023-19, Application Support Center Reschedule Requests and Missed Appointment

    • Publication Date: August 08, 2023
    • Publication Categories: Comments
    • Publication Tags: Biometrics, Disparate Impacts for Survivors, Equal Access, UCIS

    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.

  • Lives at Risk: Barriers and Harms As Biden Asylum Ban Takes Effect

    • Publication Date: May 18, 2023
    • Publication Categories: Research Reports
    • Publication Tags: Asylum

    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.

  • Tahirih Sues USCIS for Unreasonable Delays in Asylum Applications

    • Publication Date: April 11, 2023
    • Publication Categories: Complaint
    • Publication Tags: Asylum, complaint, Fair Immigration Laws, immigration

    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.

  • Tahirih Comments on Biden’s Proposed Asylum Ban

    • Publication Date: March 28, 2023
    • Publication Categories: Comments

    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

  • 2022 Impact Report

    • Publication Date: March 22, 2023
    • Publication Categories: Annual Reports
    • Publication Tags: Governance, Impact
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  • AMICUS BRIEF IN MIRANDA SANCHEZ V. GARLAND

    • Publication Date: March 01, 2023
    • Publication Categories: Amicus Briefs

    Tahirih filed an amicus brief in the Fourth Circuit in Miranda Sanchez v. Garland. In this case, the government reinstated a removal order against the noncitizen. After denial of relief under the Convention Against Torture, the noncitizen sought federal court review. The government now argues that federal courts lack jurisdiction to review this order because the noncitizen should have sought review within thirty days of the reinstatement of the removal order – which, in this and virtually all cases, would precede even the immigration judge’s first scheduling hearing. We stepped in as amicus to argue that the government’s position is inconsistent with law and produces absurd and inefficient results.