Mandamus decisions / Southern District of Florida

Bahrami Niya v. U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Services

Southern District of FloridaShaniek Mills MaynardDecided March 2, 2026

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Agency	Department of State Read by a model father was scheduled to attend relevant appointments, including a re-interview regarding his visa application at the Embassy in Yerevan on December 9, 2025.
Form or filing	None named Read by a model
What the suit asked for	Decide the application Read by a model asking the Court to compel Respondents to adjudicate Petitioner’s father’s visa application
Kind of order	A magistrate judge's recommendation Read by a model REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION
Motion decided	None Read by a model
Whose motion	The court on its own Read by a model THIS CAUSE is before me upon a sua sponte review of the record.
Disposition	Magistrate judge's recommendation A magistrate judge's report and recommendation. The district judge decides whether to adopt it, so it is not counted as either side's win. Read by a model REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION
Prevailing party	Neither side Read by a model REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION
The delay claim	Dismissed Read by a model I thus recommend that this case be DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE for failure to comply with Court Orders and failure to prosecute.
Months pending	24 months from the application to the court's decision Read by a model which had then been pending for nearly two years.
TRAC factors	The court did not weigh the TRAC factors Read by a model
Threshold rulings	None Read by a model

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Decision	Decided	Judge	Disposition
Bahrami Niya v. U.S. Immigration & Naturalization ServicesThis decision	March 2, 2026	Shaniek Mills Maynard	Magistrate judge's recommendation
Bahrami Niya v. U.S. Immigration & Naturalization ServicesThe case's latest decision: its outcome is the one counted	March 27, 2026		Dismissed

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Supreme Court and Eleventh Circuit authority

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Trump v. Hawaii, 585 U.S. 667

Supreme Court, June 26, 2018. Mandel's facially-legitimate-and-bona-fide standard governs constitutional challenges to entry restrictions, and a citation to a valid statutory ground ordinarily satisfies it.

ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance
Department of State v. Muñoz, 602 U.S. 899

Supreme Court, June 21, 2024. A U.S. citizen has no fundamental liberty interest in a noncitizen spouse's admission, so marriage alone entitles the citizen neither to Mandel review of the consular refusal nor to an explanation beyond the statutory citation.

ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance
Kleindienst v. Mandel, 408 U.S. 753

Supreme Court, June 29, 1972. When a visa refusal burdens a U.S. citizen's own constitutional rights, courts ask only whether the Executive gave a facially legitimate and bona fide reason and do not look behind it.

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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.

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Del Valle v. Secretary of State, 16 F.4th 832

Eleventh Circuit, October 26, 2021. Consular nonreviewability is not jurisdictional, but a refusal citing specific inadmissibility provisions is facially legitimate and bona fide, and in camera review of the underlying evidence is foreclosed absent plausibly alleged bad faith.

ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance. ImmCite has read all 3 published decisions citing this case, as of 2026-11-13; none treats it adversely. That describes those decisions; it is not a determination that the case is good law.
Kanapuram v. Director, USCIS, 131 F.4th 1302

Eleventh Circuit, March 20, 2025. Section 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii) strips district courts of jurisdiction over APA unreasonable-delay claims about pending adjustment applications where the delay is part of the discretionary adjudication process, including retrogression holds.

ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance. ImmCite has read all 2 published decisions citing this case, as of 2026-11-09; none treats it adversely. That describes those decisions; it is not a determination that the case is good law.