Application for U.S. citizenship delayed

Application for U.S. citizenship delayed by USCIS

OA immigrated to the United States in 1999 as a child of a lawful permanent resident Two years later, government attorneys arrested him as a material witness to testify before a grand jury who indicted two young men he barely knew from work and his musjid who were involved in the 9/11 attacksHe filed his first citizenship application in 2007, which USCIS denied after it intentionally misunderstood his answers to questions about material support of terrorismHis second application has been pending since January 2020 – almost five years– for no legitimate reasonUSCIS initially scheduled an interview for August 2023However, the interviewing officer informed him that day it would quickly be rescheduled.  This turned out to be a blatant lie

Verdict/Ruling:The case remains ongoing

IMPACT

MLFA skillfully uses administrative remedies and federal courts to fight U.S. immigration agencies’ bias towards Muslim non-citizens based on guilt-by-association.