AILA: “Civil Rights Coalition Halts Implementation of Presidential Proclamation Requiring Health Insurance”

Last week, litigators from the Justice Action Center (JAC), the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and the Innovation Law Lab, with Sidley Austin LLP, filed suit in the US District Court for the District of Oregon to halt implementation of the Trump administration’s requirements for immigrant visa applicants to demonstrate to consular officers at the time of the interview that they will have health insurance within thirty days of entry to the US or have sufficient financial means to cover reasonably foreseeable medical costs. In response to the suit, Judge Michael Simon of the Federal District Court in Portland, Oregon, issued a nationwide temporary restraining order preventing the government from enforcing the proclamation that was set to go into effect Sunday, November 3. The court will consider the merits of the suit, Doe vs. Trump, in the coming days and weeks.

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