Second Iran Deportation Flight Imminent, Vulnerable Iranians Must Be Protected
Washington, DC – The National Iranian American Council is deeply concerned that the Trump administration is imminently planning to send Iranians detained by ICE on a deportation flight to Iran as soon as December 7, including individuals with credible fear of retaliation and abuses by Iranian authorities. We have received information that at least one […]
National Iranian American Council Condemns Trump’s Halt of Immigration Applications
Washington, D.C. – The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) strongly condemns the Trump administration’s newly announced actions targeting U.S. green card holders and asylum applications for individuals from countries targeted under the June travel ban, including Iran. These sweeping measures represent a dangerous escalation of discriminatory immigration policy and threaten to upend the lives of […]
NIAC Condemns Deportation of Iranian Nationals Amid Ongoing Civil Rights Abuses
Washington, DC – Jamal Abdi, President of the National Iranian American Council, issued the following statement on reports that the U.S. has chartered a plane to deport approximately 100 Iranian nationals to Iran, and will deport hundreds more to Iran in the months to come. In the days that followed the June war against Iran, […]
2025 Deportation Defense Training
On September 17, 2025, NIAC — along with Asian Law Caucus and the New York Civil Liberties Union — hosted a special training on building community power to equip our communities for successful defense against unjust detentions and deportations. You can find a full recording of the event here as well as the event slides […]
NIAC Supports Legal Efforts to Defend Iranian-American Civil Rights
NIAC has long dedicated itself to defending the civil rights of Iranian Americans against various forms of discrimination on the basis of national origin – from outright bans on visas and travel, to harmful exclusions in immigration law, to restrictions on property ownership. Included below are several key updates on NIAC’s work and support for […]
پرسشهای متداول: دفاع از حقوق مهاجران و آگاهی از حقوق خود به عنوان ایرانی-آمریکایی
۳۰ ژوئن ۲۰۲۵ در پی افزایش نگرانکنندهی بازداشتها و اخراجهای مهاجرتی با انگیزههای نژادی و سایر تلاشهای دولت ترامپ برای حمله به حقوق مهاجرتی ایرانی-آمریکاییهای ساکن ایالات متحده، این راهنمای پرسش و پاسخ را تهیه کردهایم. هدف ما ارائه اطلاعات درست درباره حقوق قانونی شما در داخل آمریکا، آمادگی برای دفاع مهاجرتی، و راهکارهای مقابله […]
FAQ: Immigrant Defense and Knowing Our Rights as Iranian Americans
برای خواندن این مطلب به فارسی اینجا را کلیک کنید In the wake of a disturbing spike in racially motivated immigration arrests, deportations, and other Trump efforts to attack the immigration rights of Iranian Americans living in the U.S., we have created this FAQ for Iranian Americans focused on knowing your rights at home in […]
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.
