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Mansor v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

2:23-cv-00347 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: March 9, 2023

This case is about lawful U.S. immigrants in a Temporary Protected Status receiving their interim employment authorization from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. On March 9, 2023, three plaintiffs filed a class action complaint in United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiffs brought their claims against United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and the Director and Deputy Director for the Department of Homeland Secur…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe v. Trump

4:25-cv-03140 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 7, 2025

This case is one of numerous lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s abrupt termination of immigration visas—mostly student or work visas—with no notice to the visa-holders and with dubious or no legal basis. You can see all of the cases here. This case challenged termination of an international student's status. The case was filed on April 7, 2025, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.  The pseudonymous plaintiff, John Doe, was represented by atto…

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CASA, Inc. v. Noem

8:25-cv-00525 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 20, 2025

On February 20, 2025, CASA, Inc. and Make the Road New York filed this lawsuit against Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland​. The Plaintiffs challenged Secretary Noem’s decisions (1) to vacate the January 17, 2025 extension of Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for Venezuelans through October 2, 2026; and (2) to terminate TPS for the Venezuelans who initially registered in 2023. You c…

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Immigrant Legal Resource Center v. Wolf

4:20-cv-05883 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 20, 2020

This case is about the legality of a rule change proposed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and set to go into effect October 2, 2020. The Final Rule (specifically, the USCIS Fee Schedule & Changes to Certain Other Immigration Benefit Request Requirements, 85 Fed. Reg. 46,788) increased the cost of applying for immigration benefits, including naturalization and asylum. The plaintiffs, eight non-profit organizations that provide a variety of services for low-income applicants for imm…
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B.L.R v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

4:23-cv-13230 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2023

This is a case about undocumented noncitizens who seek “U visas” as a result of surviving serious crimes that occurred in the United States and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ allegedly unreasonable delay in providing them visas. On December 19, 2023 (amended on February 9, 2024), a group of 10 undocumented noncitizens filed this lawsuit in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs brought this suit against the U.S. Department of Homeland S…

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Batalla Vidal v. Nielsen

1:16-cv-04756 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 2016

On August 25, 2016, a Mexican-born Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient living in New York filed this suit against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiff, represented by Make the Road New York, the National Immigration Law Center, and the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, sued under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and 5 U.S.C. § 551, alleging that the revocation of his …
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Fang v. Saldana

2:16-cv-02092 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Nov. 18, 2016

Closed Date: June 9, 2922

This is a case brought by noncitizen students facing immigration enforcement about the fallout from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sting operation. The noncitizens had entered the U.S. on student visas and had enrolled in the University of Northern New Jersey ("UNNJ") to maintain their student visa status after graduating from other U.S. universities and beginning work. As it turned out, in April 2016 ICE revealed that the UNNJ was a fake university it created to investigate and pro…
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Nightingale v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

3:19-cv-03512 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 16, 2019

On June 16, 2019, plaintiffs – three immigration attorneys and two noncitizens who filed FOIA (FOIA) requests for individual immigration case files (known as A-Files) – filed this class-action suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), alleging that the defendants had a nationwide pattern or p…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ptasinska v. U.S. Department of State

1:07-cv-03795 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 6, 2007

Closed Date: Nov. 1, 2007

On July 6, 2007, the plaintiff, a person lawfully present in the United States on a non-immigrant H1-B visa and represented by private counsel, filed a complaint against the U.S. Department of State, Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and several individual employees of those agencies in their professional capacities regarding a change to the July 2007 Visa Bulletin’s statement about the availability of employment-based immigrant visas f…
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Gonzalez Torres v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

3:17-cv-01840 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2017

On September 11, 2017, an individual recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) program filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. He sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”). The case was assigned to District Judge Jeffrey T. Miller. Represented by private counsel, th…

Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

Torres v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Sept. 11, 2017

Plaintiff's Ex Parte Emergency Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and/or Preliminary Injunction; Application for Order Shortening Time and Expedited Hearing Prior to October 2017

Torres v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Sept. 11, 2017

Defendants’ Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Opposition to Plaintiff's Ex Parte Emergency Motion for temporary Restraining Order and/or Preliminary Injunction [DKT. 2].

Torres v. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Sept. 21, 2017

Plaintiff's Reply in Support of Ex Parte Emergency Motion For Temporary Restraining Order and/or Preliminary Injunction

Gonzalez Torres v. Department of Homeland Security

Sept. 25, 2017

Order Granting Motion For Preliminary Injunction

Gonzalez Torres v. DHS

Sept. 29, 2017

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