U and T Litigation – Plaintiff Onboarding

🛑 Deadline to join U and T Litigation is December 30, 2025

In this lawsuit we will represent any individual who has been granted Deferred Action through a Bona Fide Determination of the U or T nonimmigrant status application. We are seeking a Federal Judge to affirm that protective Deferred Action prevents ICE from detaining an individual.

With the increase in ICE detentions, the current administration is taking a particularly aggressive position that they can detain those already granted Deferred Action based on their Bona Fide Determination from their pending U or T nonimmigrant status. Generally, those who have been granted Deferred Action have been protected from detention if they have not been convicted of a crime since they were granted Deferred Action. The shift with the current administration has been to detain those in Deferred Action based on their pending U or T application without any new criminal arrests, charges, or convictions. Detention also acts to automatically revoke (or take away) the Deferred Action protection. Even if released, this can cost an individual additional time and resources to ask immigration to extend Deferred Action on their case again. 

Detention is an awful place for anyone, but it is also an inappropriate place for those protected by Deferred Action. If there have been no criminal convictions to trigger detention, our team wants to have a Federal Judge affirm that Deferred Action acts as that protection against being detained. 

This case is being filed by IMMpact Litigation, a joint venture of the law firms Bless Litigation in Boston, Joseph & Hall in Denver, Kuck Baxter in Atlanta and Siskind Susser in Memphis. The firms have some of the most experienced immigration lawyers in the country and have now litigated together in more than 30 mass federal cases. IMMpact received the 2022 American Immigration Lawyers Association Litigation Award and the American Bar Association’s James E. Keane Award for the innovative use of technology in managing our litigation.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN THE LAWSUIT, PLEASE DO ALL THE FOLLOWING:

Step 1: Review the FAQ to confirm that you qualify to participate and that you understand what the case is about and how the plaintiff fee works.

Step 2: Complete our engagement letter and declaration generator app. This will create an engagement letter (contract) for you to review and sign and will automatically send a copy to our team and to you. It will also tell us more about your situation.

Step 3: Pay your fee here. We are charging $2000.00 per principal applicant to participate in the case. The principal can indlue their derivative family members for no additional cost. The fee is a one-time charge, and we will not be charging additional expenses or legal fees. The fee is due at the outset and is non-refundable since we are already preparing this case and will be filing quickly. Payment Policy: We accept credit cards and eChecks only. DO NOT USE A DEBIT CARD — your payment will be voided, and you will not be added as a plaintiff. You are responsible for paying the merchant surcharge fees associated with making a payment and the surcharge fees will not be refunded under any circumstance.

Once you have completed all the above steps, you have signed up!

You’ll receive an automatic email confirmation when we’ve received your engagement letter and declaration.  This, and your payment confirmation email, means that you are in our database and will be included in our lawsuit. If any information or documents are missing, we will contact you before filing the case. Otherwise, we’ll be in touch with all plaintiffs when we have filed the lawsuit with the court.

In the meantime, please do not contact our team asking for further confirmation that we have received your materials; this slows us down when we’re doing our best to prepare our filing quickly.