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Gul v. Blinken

District of ColumbiaTREVOR N. McFADDENDecided July 11, 2024No. 1:24-cv-00787

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What the decision decided

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Agency Department of State Read by a model
Here, “the only duty that the statute or regulations impose on consular officers is a duty to grant or refuse a visa.”
Form or filing 221(g) (consular refusal); DS-160 (nonimmigrant visa) Read by a model
She applied for a B-2 Nonimmigrant Tourist Visa and sat for a visa interview in September 2022.
What the suit asked for Finish 221(g) processing Read by a model
Instead, it left her application languishing in “administrative processing” for nearly two years. She thus sued a bevy of federal officials, claiming that a decision on her visa has been unreasonably delayed and demanding an answer.
Kind of order A ruling on a motion or the petition Read by a model
The Court will grant State’s Motion to Dismiss.
Motion decided Motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction; Motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim Read by a model
State moves to dismiss under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1) and (b)(6).
Whose motion The government's motion Read by a model
State moves to dismiss under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1) and (b)(6).
Disposition Dismissed The case or every delay claim was dismissed for a reason other than mootness. Read by a model
The Court will grant State’s Motion to Dismiss.
Prevailing party Government Read by a model
The Court will grant State’s Motion to Dismiss.
The delay claim Dismissed Read by a model
The Court will grant State’s Motion to Dismiss.
Months pending 18.1 months from the application to the suit; 21.8 months from the application to the court's decision Read by a model
She applied for a B-2 Nonimmigrant Tourist Visa and sat for a visa interview in September 2022.
TRAC factors The court weighed the TRAC factors
  • 1. Rule of reasonfavors the government
  • 2. Congressional timetablefavors the government
  • 3. Human health and welfarefavors the government
  • 4. Competing prioritiesfavors the government
  • 5. Interests prejudicedfavors the government
  • 6. No impropriety neededneutral
Read by a model
So these factors favor State.
The government's delay arguments Line-jumping accepted Read by a model
This kind of “line jumping” is presumptively disfavored, and courts are loath to facilitate it. Id. So this factor, too, tilts for State.
Threshold rulings Consular nonreviewability applied; No duty to re-adjudicate a 221(g) refusal Read by a model
First, Gul’s claims are foreclosed by the doctrine of consular nonreviewability.
Nationality Pakistan Read by a model
Rubina Gul is a Pakistani resident and national.

How the case ended

Docket
No. 1:24-cv-00787
Filed
March 18, 2024
Ended
July 11, 2024
Suit's filing to its end
115 days
How it ended
Dismissed on jurisdiction or the merits
From the record
idb disp 6 (judgment: motion before trial), judgment for defendant

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 D.C. Circuit authority

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