October 19, 2022
A class of foreign-born military recruits who sought $10 million in attorney fees after winning back their expedited path to naturalization two years ago have settled for $2.75 million in the interest of conserving resources and avoiding further litigation risks.
June 01, 2021
The U.S. government rebuked foreign soldiers' $10 million fee bid after they won a permanent bar on a Pentagon policy blocking their citizenship requests, telling a Washington, D.C., court that security concerns "substantially justified" why it championed the policy in court.
August 21, 2020
A D.C. federal judge permanently barred the U.S. Department of Defense from enacting a 2017 rule that retroactively disqualified foreign-born military recruits' applications for expedited naturalization in a final order issued Thursday.
May 23, 2019
A Washington, D.C., federal judge vacated a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services policy delaying citizenship applications for foreign military recruits until it receives a "suitability determination" from the U.S. Army, saying USCIS has wrongly used those determinations in place of its own judgment.
October 22, 2018
A class of noncitizen U.S. Army recruits challenging the imposition of added requirements for naturalization through a government program urged a District of Columbia federal court Friday to strike the Trump administration's bid for a quick win, arguing the federal government's motion doesn't comply with filing requirements.
October 12, 2018
The U.S. Department of Defense discharged in the space of a year more than 500 recruits who joined the military through a program meant to provide an expedited pathway to citizenship, according to recently unsealed records filed in consolidated class actions challenging those discharges and delays in the citizenship process.
September 17, 2018
The U.S. departments of Defense and Homeland Security have urged a D.C. federal court to grant them a quick win in a class action from noncitizen U.S. Army recruits challenging the imposition of added requirements for naturalization, saying the policy is lawful.
August 14, 2018
Noncitizen Army reservists have asked a D.C. federal judge to permanently block a U.S. Department of Defense policy imposing added eligibility requirements on their path to naturalization, arguing it will result in different government branches scrutinizing the same high-level security screening results twice, a needless, unconstitutional delay.
March 20, 2018
A putative class of noncitizen U.S. Army recruits accusing the government of unfairly delaying the expedited naturalization they were promised under a recently-paused program asked a D.C. federal judge to enjoin a policy that imposed new requirements on eligibility after they signed on to the program, calling the delays resulting from the policy a "cruel irony."
January 24, 2018
A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday denied the government's bid to dismiss a putative class action by noncitizen U.S. Army recruits accusing it of unfairly delaying the expedited naturalization they were promised under a recently paused program.