The Iranian American Democrats of California (IADC) condemns LSAC’s decision to suspend the accounts of law school applicants who designated Iranian citizenship, primary or secondary, on their records, citing compliance with sanctions tied to the suspension of General License G.
Compliance with the law is necessary. But it must rest on accurate, individualized information; not nationality, heritage, or outdated residency assumptions. Instead of verifying status case by case, LSAC issued a blanket suspension that swept up U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, many of whom have never set foot in Iran, forcing them to surrender sensitive personal data just to restore access they should never have lost.

In addition, the suspension of General License G has created interruption in availability of TOEFL AND GRE (ETS) for applicants and the Duolingo English Test has been disabled for users in Iran. US universities are prohibited from engaging in any University Academic Exchanges involving students with dual Iranian citizenship.

This is not compliance. This ethnic profiling is the same constitutional injury as unconstitutional racial profiling: treating people as suspects because of who they are and where their family comes from, not because of anything they have done.

IADC demands that LSAC’s Board of Trustees and other educational establishments immediately correct this action, restoring all affected accounts without further burden on applicants, and committing to individualized legal review rather than national origin as the basis for any future compliance measures.