Court settlement lets people denied U.S. visas under the Trump-era 'Muslim ban' reapply for free

A major agreement in the long-running cases to repair the lasting harms of the so-called “Muslim ban” that former President Donald Trump enacted in 2017 calls for the government to provide a clear visa reconsideration process, free of charge, to nearly 25,000 people from Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen who were prevented from getting U.S. visas.

When Biden took office, he rescinded the ban, but people are still affected. This settlement seeks to repair some of those harms.

Here & Now‘s Deepa Fernandes speaks with Maral Elliott, one of the plaintiffs in the case, and Baback Yousefzadeh, chair of the Iranian American Bar Association Board of Advisors, one of the groups that litigated the case.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.