Lawsuit Over Blanket Travel Ban Waiver Denials Remains Alive

A group of 36 U.S. citizens, immigrants, and foreign nationals from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen are moving forward with a lawsuit over the Trump administration’s alleged refusal to grant waivers to the president’s travel ban.

There’s evidence that only two waivers have been granted out of 8,406 travel ban-subject visa applications processed between Dec. 8, 2017, and Jan. 8, 2018, a rate of 0.02 percent, a federal judge in California said Feb. 4. A former consular officer also submitted a declaration that officers weren’t allowed discretion to grant or deny a waiver, and instead had to turn the ...