Mandamus decisions / Northern District of Georgia
Shah v. McHenry
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What the decision decided
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| Agency |
USCIS
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Accordingly, the Court REMANDS this matter to USCIS and ORDERS USCIS to issue a decision on Plaintiff’s application for naturalization, Form N-400, within fifteen days of the date of this Order. |
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| Form or filing |
N-400 (naturalization)
Read by a model
Plaintiff’s application for naturalization, Form N-400 |
| What the suit asked for |
Naturalization hearing or remand (1447(b))
Read by a model
Defendants have moved the Court to remand this matter to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1447(b) so that USCIS may issue a decision on Plaintiff’s application for naturalization, Form N-400. |
| Kind of order |
A stipulated or agreed order
Read by a model
ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ UNOPPOSED MOTION TO REMAND |
| Motion decided |
Remand under 1447(b)
Read by a model
Defendants have moved the Court to remand this matter to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1447(b) so that USCIS may issue a decision on Plaintiff’s application for naturalization, Form N-400. |
| Whose motion |
The government's motion
Read by a model
Defendants have moved the Court to remand this matter to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1447(b) |
| Disposition |
Stipulated or agreed order
An order the parties asked for together, or the plaintiff's own dismissal. Not counted as either side's win.
Read by a model
ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ UNOPPOSED MOTION TO REMAND |
| Prevailing party |
Neither side
Read by a model
ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ UNOPPOSED MOTION TO REMAND |
| The delay claim |
Remanded to the agency
Read by a model
Accordingly, the Court REMANDS this matter to USCIS and ORDERS USCIS to issue a decision on Plaintiff’s application for naturalization, Form N-400, within fifteen days of the date of this Order. |
| Months pending | Not stated A section 1447(b) suit: these months run from the naturalization application. The statute's 120 days run from the interview, which they do not measure. Read by a model |
| TRAC factors | The court did not weigh the TRAC factors Read by a model |
| Threshold rulings | None Read by a model |
How the case ended
- Docket
- No. 1:25-cv-00520
- On the docket
- This ruling (ECF 8), deciding the motion (ECF 7)
- Filed
- February 4, 2025
- Ended
- March 21, 2025
- Suit's filing to its end
- 45 days
- How it ended
- Remanded to the agency
- From the record
- remand order 2025-03-21; idb disp 11 (remanded to U.S. agency)
A voluntary or stipulated dismissal is how most suits end once the agency acts; the docket rarely says why. Other suits in this court.
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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 14, 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 2026-11-09; none treats it adversely. That describes those decisions; it is not a determination that the case is good law.