Lawyers Say Visa Woes Imperil Sheik Case
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A Yemeni sheik and his assistant won't be able to fully defend themselves against terrorist financing charges because four potential witnesses have been barred from entering the United States, the defendants' lawyers said Wednesday.
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Hundreds of lawyers are being reassigned to deal with more than 4,000 appeals in New York City immigration cases.
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PEORIA, Ill. -- The 37-year-old computer science student was racing against a deadline. Just one day after picking up his visa from the U.S. Embassy in Qatar, he boarded a plane with his wife and five small children. The family flew to Chicago, caught a night's sleep at an airport hotel, then...
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Jose Padilla, the American citizen who was held in military detention for more than three years as an enemy combatant, filed a lawsuit against a lawyer who helped provide the legal justifications for the episode.
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A US embassy spokesman in Kiev yesterday said a visa had been denied to Grigory Surkis, head of Ukraine's football federation and partner in business and politics of Viktor Medvedchuk, presidential ...
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A Moroccan immigrant who was held for three years before his terrorism-related conviction was thrown out has filed a $9 million federal lawsuit against the prosecutor and two others involved in the case.
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MOSCOW  - Citing fears of intimidation, lawyers representing the business partner of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky filed a motion Monday waiving the right to call defence witnesses as their client's fraud and tax evasion trial drags on.
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A High Court judge in London demanded an explanation from the Home Office as to how a failed asylum-seeker was deported from Britain despite a court order preventing the move.
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At least 25 foreign-born surviving spouses and perhaps many more -- most of them widows -- are on the brink of deportation, according to the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Washington.
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The ex-dictator's lawyers allege a plot to sneak him out of the country and file suit to stop it.
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New Jersey officials trying combat witness intimidation are concerned about cases involving one lawyerâs clients.
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One of America's most wanted fugitives, accused of raping his daughter and posting the video on the Internet, has contested a U.S. extradition request, his lawyer said on Thursday after a court appearance in Hong Kong.
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A Yemeni sheik accused of funneling millions of dollars to terrorist networks warned U.S. agents that "Allah will bring storms" to America because of his arrest, according to newly filed court papers.
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Lawyers defending the husband of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto has failed to stop the Islamabad government from pursuing a lawsuit against him in the English courts.
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Lawyers defending suspects in an alleged coup attempt to topple Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir's Islamist government said that they still had not been allowed to see their clients.
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Boris Kuznetsov, a lawyer who challenged the Russian security services' wiretapping of his client, has applied for political asylum in the United States, his Moscow attorney said Tuesday.
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Ex-singer Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, says he has instructed lawyers after being refused entry to the US.