Onboarding for Mass Litigation Clients

Joseph & Hall PC is currently co-counseling in a number of mass immigration litigation matters. If you are a potential client in one of those cases and are looking to participate as a named plaintiff, please follow the instructions linked below.

Did you miss the deadline for onboarding? Sometimes we have the opportunity to add plaintiffs after a case is filed. To be added to a waiting list for one of our cases, sign up here.

Our current cases include:

• EAD Delay Lawsuit Plaintiff Onboarding – this new lawsuit challenges USCIS’ delay in adjudicating EADs (I-765 work permit applications).
• Indian and Chinese Delayed EB-1/EB-2/EB-3 Adjustment of Status cases – [Not adding plaintiffs] – If USCIS fails to adjudicate cases before September 30, 2021, nearly 100,000 green cards may go unused & disappear. This case will seek to force USCIS to issue those visas before then or reserve the visas so they’re not lost if the deadline passes.
• H-1B Lottery (Liu v. Mayorkas) – [Not adding plaintiffs] – This case challenges the USCIS policy of allowing individuals to file more than one H-1B petition with multiple different employers as well as other areas of the online H-1B lottery registration.
• K-1 London (King v. Blinken) – [not adding plaintiffs]. This case challenges K-1 processing delays at the US Consulate in London.
• K-1 Moscow (Ponomarenko v. Blinken) – [Not adding plaintiffs] – This case concerns delays in the processing of K-1 visas at the US consulate in Moscow, Russia.
• DV-2021 Delays (Goh v. Blinken) [Not adding plaintiffs] – The State Department’s failure to move DV-2021 cases in a timely manner is challenged in this case and forces the agency to adjudicate cases after the 9/30/2021 deadline if they are unable to do so.
• K-1 Philippines (Ramirez v. Blinken) – [Not adding plaintiffs] – This case challenges K-1 visa processing delays at the US consulate in Manila, Philippines.
• Travel Ban litigation (Kinsley v. Blinken) – [Not adding plaintiffs] – In this case, we are challenging the ability of the State Department to deny visas based on regional travel bans (Brazil, Schengen area, India, China, Iran, South Africa, Ireland and the United Kingdom).
• K-1 Brazil (Penn v. Blinken)– [Not adding plaintiffs] – In this case, we challenge the K-1 visa processing delays at the US consulate in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• K-1 Egypt (Yacoub v. Blinken)- [Not adding plaintiffs] – This case challenges K-1 visa processing delays at the US consulate in Cairo, Egypt.
• Egyptian spouses of US citizens (Abdelwahed v. Blinken) – [Not adding plaintiffs] – This case challenges immigrant visa processing delays at the US consulate in Cairo, Egypt.
• EB-5 Consular Processing (Fang v. Blinken) -[Not adding plaintiffs] – This case will challenge EB-5 immigrant visa processing delays at consulates across the world.
• Aker v. Trump –  [Not adding plaintiffs] – This case challenged the Presidential Proclamation 10014 and 10052 with respect to DV winners. The judge has certified the case as a class action and potential class members can go here. We are no longer seeking clients for this case.
• Milligan v. Pompeo – [Not adding plaintiffs] This case challenges K-1 fiancé(e) visa delays across the world.
• Tate v. Pompeo  – [Not adding plaintiffs] This case challenges O-1 visa delays.
• Anunciato v. Trump – [Not adding plaintiffs] This case challenged visa processing delays and the Trump Administration’s immigrant visa ban, Presidential Proclamation 10014.
• Purdue University v. Scalia – [Not adding plaintiffs] We’ve filed a case challenging the US Department of Labor over a new rule that dramatically hikes wages for H-1B, H-1B1, PERM and E-3 cases.