Mandamus decisions / Middle District of Florida
Perez v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
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What the decision decided
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| Agency |
USCIS
Read by a model
Robert Iannucci Perez seeks a preliminary injunction requiring the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to adjudicate his request to reopen or reconsider its denial of his E-2 visa petition. |
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| Form or filing |
I-290B
Read by a model
On December 4, 2025, Perez filed a Form I-290B “Motion to Reopen and Reconsider” the decision with USCIS. |
| What the suit asked for |
Some other action
Read by a model
Robert Iannucci Perez seeks a preliminary injunction requiring the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to adjudicate his request to reopen or reconsider its denial of his E-2 visa petition. |
| Kind of order |
A ruling on a motion or the petition
Read by a model
The Motion to Dismiss (Doc. 29) is GRANTED. |
| Motion decided |
Other motion to dismiss; Preliminary injunction or TRO
Read by a model
The Motion to Dismiss (Doc. 29) is GRANTED. The Amended Motion for a Preliminary Injunction (Doc. 10) is DENIED as moot. |
| Whose motion |
Cross-motions
Read by a model
USCIS moves to dismiss the case for mootness, see MTD (Doc. 29), and Perez objects, Resp. (Doc. 30). For the reasons below, I grant the motion to dismiss. I deny Perez’s motion for a preliminary injunction as moot |
| Disposition |
Dismissed as moot
Dismissed or denied as moot because the agency acted.
Read by a model
Because USCIS has given Perez the relief sought in the complaint, this action is moot. |
| Prevailing party |
Neither side
Read by a model
Because USCIS has given Perez the relief sought in the complaint, this action is moot. |
| The delay claim |
Moot: the agency acted
Read by a model
Because USCIS has given Perez the relief sought in the complaint, this action is moot. |
| Months pending |
2.3 months from the application to the suit
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
On December 4, 2025, Perez filed a Form I-290B “Motion to Reopen and Reconsider” the decision with USCIS. |
| 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 given Perez the relief sought in the complaint, this action is moot. |
| Nationality |
Venezuela
Read by a model
Robert Iannucci Perez is a dual national of Venezuela and Italy. |
Other orders in this case
The group holds 2 decisions from this suit, oldest first. Outcome counts on these pages count the case once, by its latest decision. How decisions are grouped into cases.
| Decision | Decided | Judge | Disposition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perez v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)This decision | April 23, 2026 | Kathryn Kimball Mizelle | Dismissed as moot |
| Perez v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)The case's latest decision: its outcome is the one counted | July 23, 2026 | Kathryn Kimball Mizelle | Dismissed as moot |
How the case ended
- Docket
- No. 8:26-cv-00392
- Filed
- February 11, 2026
- Ended
- July 23, 2026
- Suit's filing to its end
- 162 days
- How it ended
- Ended once the agency acted
- From the record
- terminated; no disposition recorded
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 Eleventh 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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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 2026-11-02; none treats it adversely. That describes those decisions; it is not a determination that the case is good law.