After three years, two court petitions and one appeal to the appellate committee for foreigners: children from a previous marriage, accompanying their parent seeking family unification in Israel, will receive a permit of temporary residency in Israel

After five years of delays, disregard and superfluous demands: the interior ministry has issued a residence and work visa to a stateless young woman, a lifelong inhabitant of East Jerusalem. But she still has no passport on which the visa can be stamped

The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge: The Ministry of Interior refuses to grant permanent status to the children of a permanent resident from East Jerusalem because he is serving a prison term

Following HaMoked's petition: the Ministry of Interior has undertaken to step up the processing of requests for status of foreign women who reside in Israel without visas and suffer from domestic violence at the hands of their Israeli spouses

At HaMoked’s demand, the NII announces the right to health insurance will not be denied to children under 2.5 years of age awaiting the decision of the Ministry of Interior on their status. Children whose status has yet to be determined and are older than 2.5 will not have health insurance

HaMoked files an administrative objection against the decision to refuse a family unification application due to "absence of center of life": an examination of the materials upon which the interior ministry based its decision, points to selective reading and the use of dubious investigation methods

In the framework of an application to grant Israeli status to three stateless Palestinians from East Jerusalem, the state insists that they should undergo genetic testing, which would cost thousands of Israeli Shekels: at HaMoked's request, the state's Legal-Aid Office agrees to assist in the process and costs

Administrative petition on behalf of a Jordanian woman, a victim of domestic violence, whose husband also refrained from arranging her status. HaMoked filed the petition after her application for temporary status while the Inter-Ministerial Humanitarian Committee discussed her case was refused. HaMoked also asked the Ministry of Interior to establish in protocol that all women in these circumst...

The HCJ dismisses the petitions against the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order): the decision legitimizes an infamous law, which violates the rights to equality and to family life

English translation taken from Adalah’s Newsletter, Volume 89, January 2012.

Court's decision following HaMoked's petition: a child whose parents are both permanent residents is entitled to be granted permanent status directly, even if he was not born in Israel

HaMoked’s petition for a further hearing of an appeal by two children to whom the ministry of interior refused to grant status. The children were born in Jerusalem and live with their family Sur Bahir’s Wadi Hummus neighborhood, which is outside city limits. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal in a majority judgment, leaving the children status-less, while ignoring the neighborhoods’ comple...

Following HaMoked's intervention: an East Jerusalem youth will soon receive the status of permanent resident, after the interior ministry registered him in the status of temporary resident, contrary to regulations, when he was a child

HaMoked requests an additional hearing on the Supreme Court judgment in AAA 1966/09: the appeal judgment determined that the two children of a Jerusalem resident living in Wadi Hummus will not receive status in Israel, thereby leaving them without status anywhere in the world

Judgment in HaMoked’s appeal against the rejection of a petition on behalf of a permanent resident who lives in Wadi Hummus to instruct the Ministry of Interior to register his children in the Israeli population registry. In a majority opinion, the HCJ accepts the state’s position and orders the children remain without status. Supreme Court President Beinisch dissented, ruling “the Appellants’...

The court grants HaMoked's petition: nine years after their application was filed, the adult sons of an East Jerusalem resident will receive Israeli stay permit