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Leon v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

Southern District of New YorkDale E. HoDecided November 17, 2025No. 1:25-cv-04915

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Agency Not recorded Read by a model
Form or filing I-765 (EAD) Read by a model
Petitioner’s I-765 Work Authorization EAD application
What the suit asked for Issue a work permit Read by a model
seeking to compel Defendants to adjudicate Petitioner’s I-765 Work Authorization EAD application
Kind of order A ruling on a motion or the petition Read by a model
The Petition is therefore DENIED AS MOOT.
Motion decided Other motion to dismiss Read by a model
On November 14, 2025, Defendants filed a letter motion with this Court, ECF No. 14, requesting dismissal as moot.
Whose motion The government's motion Read by a model
On November 14, 2025, Defendants filed a letter motion with this Court, ECF No. 14, requesting dismissal as moot.
Disposition Dismissed as moot Dismissed or denied as moot because the agency acted. Read by a model
The Petition is therefore DENIED AS MOOT.
Prevailing party Neither side Read by a model
The Petition is therefore DENIED AS MOOT.
The delay claim Moot: the agency acted Read by a model
The Petition is therefore DENIED AS MOOT.
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
which had been pending for nearly a year.
TRAC factors The court did not weigh the TRAC factors Read by a model
Threshold rulings Held moot Read by a model
The Petition is therefore DENIED AS MOOT.

How the case ended

Docket
No. 1:25-cv-04915
On the docket
This ruling (ECF 16)
Filed
June 11, 2025
Ended
November 17, 2025
Suit's filing to its end
159 days
How it ended
Ended once the agency acted
From the record
decided 2025-11-17 says the agency acted (moot); idb disp 14 (dismissed: other)

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Supreme Court and Second 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Supreme Court decisions and the circuit's published decisions listed here bind this court; a circuit disposition marked nonprecedential was not published as precedent and is persuasive only.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 14, 2026. Check the current status before relying on one.