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Fathers of St. Charles v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

Northern District of IllinoisThomas M. DurkinDecided August 1, 2025No. 1:24-cv-13197

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What the decision decided

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Agency USCIS Read by a model
USCIS denied those applications.
Form or filing I-131 (travel document); I-485 (adjustment of status) Read by a model
the individual plaintiffs’ Form I-485 Applications to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status
What the suit asked for Not recorded Read by a model
Kind of order A ruling on a motion or the petition Read by a model
For the foregoing reasons, the Court grants Defendants’ motion to dismiss. The dismissal is without prejudice.
Motion decided Motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction Read by a model
Defendants move to dismiss the case in its entirety under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1) for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
Whose motion The government's motion Read by a model
Defendants move to dismiss the case in its entirety under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1) for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
Disposition Dismissed The case or every delay claim was dismissed for a reason other than mootness. Read by a model
For the foregoing reasons, the Court grants Defendants’ motion to dismiss. The dismissal is without prejudice.
Prevailing party Government Read by a model
For the foregoing reasons, the Court grants Defendants’ motion to dismiss.
The other claims Dismissed Read by a model
For the foregoing reasons, the Court grants Defendants’ motion to dismiss. The dismissal is without prejudice.
Months pending Not stated Read by a model
TRAC factors The court did not weigh the TRAC factors Read by a model
Threshold rulings Section 1252(a)(2)(B) bar applied Read by a model
But Section 1252(a)(2)(B)(i) precludes judicial review of the denial of the individual Plaintiffs’ adjustment-of-status applications, and § 1252(a)(2)(D) does not apply because the individual Plaintiffs have not received final orders of removal.

How the case ended

Docket
No. 1:24-cv-13197
On the docket
This ruling (ECF 21)
Filed
December 24, 2024
Ended
August 1, 2025
Suit's filing to its end
220 days
How it ended
Dismissed on jurisdiction or the merits
From the record
order 2025-08-01 for the defendants, ground not stated

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Supreme Court and Seventh 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.