Mandamus decisions / Northern District of Illinois
Al Hasbani v. Mayorkas
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What the decision decided
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| Agency |
USCIS
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This receipt notice indicates that Plaintiff’s application is being processed at the USCIS Los Angeles, California Asylum Office. |
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| Form or filing |
I-589 (asylum)
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Form I-589, Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal |
| What the suit asked for |
Decide the asylum application
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Plaintiff seeks a writ of mandamus compelling Defendants to adjudicate his Form I-589, Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal |
| Kind of order |
A ruling on a motion or the petition
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For the following reasons, the Court grants Defendants’ motion [7]. |
| Motion decided |
Motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim; Other motion to dismiss
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Defendants move to dismiss Plaintiff’s complaint for failure to state a claim under Rule 12(b)(6) and for improper venue under Rule 12(b)(3). |
| Whose motion |
The government's motion
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Before the Court is Defendants’ motion to dismiss pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(3) and 12(b)(6). |
| Disposition |
Dismissed
The case or every delay claim was dismissed for a reason other than mootness.
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For these reasons, the Court grants Defendants’ motion to dismiss for improper venue. |
| Prevailing party |
Government
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For these reasons, the Court grants Defendants’ motion to dismiss for improper venue. |
| The delay claim |
Dismissed
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For these reasons, the Court grants Defendants’ motion to dismiss for improper venue. |
| Months pending |
52.1 months from the application to the suit; 57 months from the application to the court's decision
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On July 13, 2020, Plaintiff filed a Form I-589. |
| TRAC factors | The court did not weigh the TRAC factors Read by a model |
| Threshold rulings | None Read by a model |
| Nationality |
Lebanon
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Plaintiff is a citizen of Lebanon currently residing in Phoenix, Arizona. |
How the case ended
- Docket
- No. 1:24-cv-11790
- Filed
- November 15, 2024
- Ended
- April 30, 2025
- Suit's filing to its end
- 166 days
- How it ended
- Dismissed on jurisdiction or the merits
- From the record
- idb disp 6 (judgment: motion before trial), judgment for defendant
A voluntary or stipulated dismissal is how most suits end once the agency acts; the docket rarely says why. Other suits in this court.
Supreme Court and Seventh Circuit authority
District decisions bind no one. On the questions this decision raises, the Supreme Court decisions and the circuit's published decisions listed here bind this court; a circuit disposition marked nonprecedential was not published as precedent and is persuasive only. ImmCite status as read November 3, 2026. Check the current status before relying on one.
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Norton v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 542 U.S. 55
Supreme Court, June 14, 2004. Section 706(1) and mandamus reach only a discrete agency action that the agency is legally required to take, so a court cannot compel programmatic improvements or action the law leaves to agency discretion.
ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance
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Iddir v. INS, 301 F.3d 492
Seventh Circuit, August 6, 2002. INS had a nondiscretionary duty to adjudicate diversity-visa applications and § 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii) does not bar review of a failure to act, but no relief is available once the fiscal year ends.
ImmCite: caution, adverse or limiting treatment found. Questioned by Akash Shahi v. United States Department of S, 33 F.4th 927 (2022).
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Calderon-Ramirez v. McCament, 877 F.3d 272
Seventh Circuit, December 5, 2017. USCIS must process U-visa petitions within a reasonable time, but neither mandamus nor the APA offers relief to an applicant who shows nothing setting him apart from those ahead of him in the oldest-first queue.
ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance
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Pak v. Biden, 91 F.4th 896
Seventh Circuit, January 31, 2024. Consular nonreviewability bars a systemic challenge to how terrorism-related inadmissibility exemptions are considered, a matter the statute commits to the Secretaries' sole unreviewable discretion, and a statutory citation with a facial link to the record satisfies Mandel.
ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance. ImmCite has read all 2 published decisions citing this case, as of 2026-10-30; none treats it adversely. That describes those decisions; it is not a determination that the case is good law.
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Shahi v. United States Department of State, 33 F.4th 927
Seventh Circuit, May 6, 2022. Courts cannot order a diversity visa issued after the fiscal year ends whatever relief is requested, because the statute ends eligibility, and the Mandamus Act supplies a remedy rather than jurisdiction.
ImmCite: unchecked, treatment not confirmed yet, not evidence either way. ImmCite has found no published decision citing this case as of 2026-10-29; it checks for new citing decisions daily. That is not a determination that the case is good law. The citation index lists 10 other decisions citing it, none a Supreme Court, BIA or Attorney General precedent or a published circuit opinion; ImmCite's status does not review them.