June 16, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services urged a judge not to certify a class claiming unreasonable delays in processing visas for immigrant victims of crime, saying the named plaintiffs' applications for work authorization have already been resolved.
April 21, 2025
U-visa petitioners suing U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services over alleged unreasonable delays of processing their work authorizations sought class certification Friday, a few months after a Michigan federal judge revived the claims.
January 02, 2025
Courts can't compel U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to issue work authorizations, but can consider the reasonableness of its processing delays, a Michigan federal judge said Thursday, reversing her dismissal of a proposed class action brought by U-visa petitioners.
October 01, 2024
A Michigan federal judge dismissed a proposed class action from U-visa petitioners who sued over government processing delays, saying federal courts lack power to force the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to process visas in a required time frame.
May 20, 2024
Immigrants alleging delayed processing of their U-visa applications have rebuffed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's efforts to dismiss their proposed class action, urging a Michigan federal court to order the agency to issue decisions they say take only a few minutes, not years.
April 15, 2024
The federal government on Friday urged a Michigan federal court to toss a proposed class action alleging unreasonable decision delays in U-visa petitions, saying the court wouldn't be able to cure the visa-seeking plaintiffs' alleged harm of being unable to work.
February 13, 2024
A group of immigrants asked a Michigan federal judge Monday to certify a class of more than 170,000 immigrants accusing the government of mishandling its program of distributing so-called U-visas to immigrant victims of crime, arguing that the court can resolve their allegations of unreasonable delays on a classwide basis.