Upcoming Briefing: What Will Trump’s New Travel Ban Do?
Travel Ban 2025 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Will Trump ban Iranians from getting visas again? We anticipate that Iranian nationals will once again be banned from receiving visas for travel to the United States with the return of Donald Trump to the Presidency, along with other nationals. President-elect Trump vowed on the campaign trail to “bring back the travel ban,” which has […]
Discriminatory Florida Law Bars University Offers to Iranian Nationals
Apart from the bureaucratic complexities that professors in Florida now face, it is the students who remain in the most uncertainty as life-changing opportunities are being stripped away from them. This law is one of many broad-based discriminatory measures strategically guised as maintaining national security that have begun cropping up at the state level.
NIAC Urges State Department to Expedite Visa and Refugee Processing for Iranian Students
The National Iranian American Council wrote Secretary of State Antony Blinken, urging him to continue efforts to expedite visas and refugee processing for Iranian nationals, with a specific focus on Iranian students. Unfortunately, Iranian students are encountering difficulties in securing visas via administrative backlogs and unexplained rejections.
Visa and Refugee Processing for Iranians Following Nationwide Protests
One of the National Iranian American Council’s primary recommendations to the Biden administration following the outbreak of nationwide protests in Iran in September 2022 was to increase visa and refugee processing for Iranians who need to get to safety. Several months after the outbreak of protests and our recommendation, visa and refugee data indicates that the Biden administration has made some improvements in processing Iranians. However, the scale of improvement – with visa processing still lagging.
NIAC Condemns Passage of Racist Property Ownership Ban in Texas State Senate
NIAC condemns the passage of SB147 in the Texas State Senate. This discriminatory bill targets an entire class of immigrants at a time when Iranians inside Iran are protesting their authoritarian government and dying for freedom, it’s particularly insulting for the Texas State Senate to signal that Iranians in the U.S. should have less rights than their peers.
100+ civil rights organizations call out anti-immigrant Texas legislation
NIAC, United Chinese Americans, RISE AAPI and over 100 other national and Texas-based civil rights organizations signed a letter to Gov. Abbott, Lt. Gov. Patrick and the members of the Texas State Senate and House opposing Texas SB147.
Can Congress Condemn Iran’s Brutal Crackdown?
It is the final legislative week of the year and Congress has yet to formally take action to condemn Iran’s brutal crackdown on protesters, which has now entered its fourth month.
Iranian Americans Stand Against Reckless Immigration Policy, the EAGLE Act
The EAGLE Act would remove “country caps” which act as safeguards to prevent nationals from any one country from monopolizing the green card process. NIAC Action firmly opposes the passage of this legislation, which would reduce the diversity of the green card process, pit groups of immigrants against each other and ultimately fail to fix the green card backlog.
Court Orders Biden Admin to Redress Muslim Ban Harms
San Francisco, CA – A court recently ordered the Biden administration to redress the ongoing harms of the Muslim Ban, which should lead to relief for those still seeking to secure visas after lengthy delays that have continued even after President Biden rescinded the ban. The class action lawsuit was originally filed in 2018 and […]
117th Congressional Scorecard
NIAC Action grades members of the U.S. House and Senate based on their voting record and actions in our 3 priority areas: Peace and Diplomacy, Human and Civil Rights, and Equitable Immigration.
Memo: The Designation Overshadowing the Iran Nuclear Negotiations
Reports indicate that most major issues in the Iran nuclear negotiations, aimed at restoring the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), are near the finish line. But one major hurdle appears to remain: the Trump administration’s unprecedented designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – a major branch of the armed forces in Iran […]