Refugee ban can’t be enforced against those who received conditional approval, 9th Circuit says

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Refugee ban cannot be enforced towards those that obtained conditional approval, ninth Circuit says

By Debra Cassens Weiss

March 26, 2025, 2:29 pm CDT

A federal appeals court docket on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to cease approving new refugees for U.S. admission throughout a authorized problem however stated the federal government can’t hold out refugees who obtained conditional approval earlier than the resettlement program was halted Jan. 20.

The ninth U.S. Circuit Court docket of Appeals at San Francisco dominated on the federal government’s emergency movement in a March 25 order, report the Related Press, the Washington Put up, the New York Instances and a March 25 press launch.

In a Feb. 25 choice, U.S. District Decide Jamal N. Whitehead of the Western District of Washington had blocked President Donald Trump’s govt order suspending the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, based on prior protection by the New York Instances. Whitehead stated the plaintiffs have been possible to reach their argument that the order was an “efficient nullification of congressional will.”

On Monday night, Whitehead issued a second preliminary injunction that orders the federal government to reinstate canceled cooperative agreements with resettlement companies, based on one other March 25 press launch.

The authorized problem was filed by the Worldwide Refugee Help Undertaking on behalf of Church World Service; HIAS, a Jewish resettlement company; Lutheran Neighborhood Providers Northwest; and 9 individuals affected by the ban.

“The court docket affirmed that the federal government should proceed processing and admitting eligible refugees whose lives have been upended by President Trump’s refugee ban,” stated Melissa Keaney, senior supervising lawyer for litigation on the Worldwide Refugee Help Undertaking, in a press launch. “We welcome this continued reduction for tens of hundreds of refugees who will now have the chance to restart their lives in the US and sit up for arguing this case in full.”

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