CAIR-Chicago’s Attorney Heena Musabji attended a status hearing for an individual Citizenship Delay Complaint Case.

CAIR-Chicago Attorney Heena Musabji attended the third status hearing at the Dirksen Federal Building for the pending Citizenship Delay class action suit

One hundred and forty three people from 42 different countries packed the courtroom in the federal building and became citizens of the United States of America.

CAIR-Chicago’s Attorney Heena Musabji received a notice from the U.S. District Court Office congratulating one of our Plaintiffs on recently becoming a U.S. Citizen.

Another Muslim man was sworn in after having experienced almost a two and half year delay in obtaining his citizenship.

On August 29th, 2006, one of the first complainants of CAIR-Chicago’s Citizenship Delay Project took the oath of allegiance to the United States of America, finally becoming a U.S. citizen after waiting for over two years after taking his citizenship examination. The man’s application, alongside countless other Muslims, had been pending security and background checks.

This morning, a coalition of attorneys and civil rights activists filed a class action lawsuit arguing that 10 Muslim men who applied for U.S. citizenship are being discriminated against on the basis of their religion and gender.

Recently, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been urging Arab and Muslim Americans to register with them in order to distinguish travelers from people whose names, or close variations thereof, appear on US no-fly or selected lists compiled by intelligence and law enforcement agencies. This is done under the guise of building positive relationships with the Arab and Muslim communities.