Mandamus decisions / Western District of Washington
Singh v. United States Citizenship Immigration Services
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What the decision decided
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| Agency |
USCIS
Read by a model
Because USCIS has adjudicated the Petition, Singh has achieved the relief that he sought when he filed this lawsuit. |
|---|---|
| Form or filing |
I-730 (refugee or asylee relative petition)
Read by a model
to adjudicate a “I-730, Refugee/Asylee Relative Petition” (“Petition”). |
| What the suit asked for |
Decide the application
Read by a model
to adjudicate a “I-730, Refugee/Asylee Relative Petition” (“Petition”). |
| Kind of order |
A ruling on a motion or the petition
Read by a model
The Court GRANTS Defendants’ motion to dismiss (Dkt. No. 7), and dismisses this matter without prejudice. |
| Motion decided |
Motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction
Read by a model
Defendants filed a motion to dismiss for a lack of subject matter jurisdiction, and notified the Court that the immigration petition has been adjudicated, and that Singh has been granted asylee status. |
| Whose motion |
The government's motion
Read by a model
The Court GRANTS Defendants’ motion to dismiss (Dkt. No. 7), and dismisses this matter without prejudice. |
| Disposition |
Dismissed as moot
Dismissed or denied as moot because the agency acted.
Read by a model
Because USCIS has adjudicated the immigration petition, there is no longer a live case or controversy before the Court. |
| Prevailing party |
Neither side
Read by a model
Because USCIS has adjudicated the immigration petition, there is no longer a live case or controversy before the Court. |
| The delay claim |
Moot: the agency acted
Read by a model
Because USCIS has adjudicated the immigration petition, there is no longer a live case or controversy before the Court. |
| Months pending | Not stated at filing The agency acted before this decision, so the months up to the decision are not a delay and are not shown. Read by a model |
| TRAC factors | The court did not weigh the TRAC factors Read by a model |
| Threshold rulings |
Held moot
Read by a model
Because USCIS has adjudicated the immigration petition, there is no longer a live case or controversy before the Court. |
How the case ended
- Docket
- No. 2:26-cv-00517
- Filed
- February 12, 2026
- Ended
- July 21, 2026
- Suit's filing to its end
- 159 days
- How it ended
- Ended once the agency acted
- From the record
- order 2026-07-21 for the defendants, ground not stated
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 Ninth 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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Independence Mining Co. v. Babbitt, 105 F.3d 502
Ninth Circuit, January 23, 1997. Mandamus and APA § 706(1) claims to compel delayed agency action are analyzed alike under the TRAC factors.
ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance
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Vaz v. Neal, 33 F.4th 1131
Ninth Circuit, May 9, 2022. Section 706(1) compels only a clear, mandatory and discrete duty that has been unreasonably delayed under TRAC, and the APA's prerequisites go to the merits while § 1331 supplies jurisdiction.
ImmCite: unchecked, treatment not confirmed yet, not evidence either way. ImmCite has found no published decision citing this case as of 2026-11-03; it checks for new citing decisions daily. That is not a determination that the case is good law. The citation index lists 144 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.