Mandamus decisions / District of Colorado
Jajermi v. Blinken
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What the decision decided
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| Agency |
Department of State
Read by a model
At an unspecified date before May 2023, Plaintiff-Son submitted a “DS-260” application for an immigrant visa to the State Department. |
|---|---|
| Form or filing |
221(g) (consular refusal); DS-260 (immigrant visa)
Read by a model
the immigrant-visa applications (DS-260 applications) |
| What the suit asked for |
Finish 221(g) processing
Read by a model
an order compelling Defendants to complete any outstanding “administrative processing” and to render a final decision—i.e., to issue or refuse—on each of the three DS-260 immigrant-visa applications |
| Kind of order |
A ruling on a motion or the petition
Read by a model
Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss Complaint (ECF No. 11) is GRANTED; |
| Motion decided | None Read by a model |
| Whose motion |
The government's motion
Read by a model
Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss Complaint (ECF No. 11) is GRANTED; |
| Disposition |
Dismissed
The case or every delay claim was dismissed for a reason other than mootness.
Read by a model
Because Plaintiffs have failed to establish standing, their claims must be dismissed without prejudice. |
| Prevailing party |
Government
Read by a model
Because Plaintiffs have failed to establish standing, their claims must be dismissed without prejudice. |
| The delay claim |
Dismissed
Read by a model
Because Plaintiffs have failed to establish standing, their claims must be dismissed without prejudice. |
| Months pending |
13.5 months from the application to the suit; 26.1 months from the application to the court's decision
Read by a model
On July 24, 2023, Plaintiff-Son and his wife and son appeared for in-person immigrantvisa interviews at the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan, Armenia. |
| TRAC factors | The court did not weigh the TRAC factors Read by a model |
| Threshold rulings |
No duty to re-adjudicate a 221(g) refusal
Read by a model
In short, the INA and its implementing regulations do not impose a nondiscretionary duty to complete administrative processing after a § 221(g) refusal. |
| Nationality |
Iran
Read by a model
Plaintiff-Son, Hassan Farzaneh Jajarmi, is a citizen of Iran seeking to immigrate to the United States. |
| I-130 category |
Family preference
Read by a model
USCIS approved the petition on September 26, 2008, classifying Plaintiff-Son in the F3 (married son of a U.S. citizen) family-preference category. |
How the case ended
- Docket
- No. 1:24-cv-02471
- On the docket
- This ruling (ECF 24)
- Filed
- September 6, 2024
- Ended
- September 24, 2025
- Suit's filing to its end
- 383 days
- How it ended
- Dismissed on jurisdiction or the merits
- From the record
- order 2025-09-24 dismisses for want of jurisdiction; idb disp 14 (dismissed: other)
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Supreme Court and Tenth 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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Department of State v. Muñoz, 602 U.S. 899
Supreme Court, June 21, 2024. A U.S. citizen has no fundamental liberty interest in a noncitizen spouse's admission, so marriage alone entitles the citizen neither to Mandel review of the consular refusal nor to an explanation beyond the statutory citation.
ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance
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Trump v. Hawaii, 585 U.S. 667
Supreme Court, June 26, 2018. Mandel's facially-legitimate-and-bona-fide standard governs constitutional challenges to entry restrictions, and a citation to a valid statutory ground ordinarily satisfies it.
ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance
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Kleindienst v. Mandel, 408 U.S. 753
Supreme Court, June 29, 1972. When a visa refusal burdens a U.S. citizen's own constitutional rights, courts ask only whether the Executive gave a facially legitimate and bona fide reason and do not look behind it.
ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance
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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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Forest Guardians v. Babbitt, 174 F.3d 1178
Tenth Circuit, April 22, 1999. Missing a concrete statutory deadline is agency action unlawfully withheld that a court must compel, while without a deadline the question is unreasonable delay; the holding still binds in the Tenth Circuit.
ImmCite: caution, adverse or limiting treatment found. Not followed in the Ninth Circuit by Al Otro Lado v. Noem, 138 F.4th 1102 (2025).