Mandamus decisions / Western District of Wisconsin
Garjani, Mehraveh v. Flores, Pete R.
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What the decision decided
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| Agency | Not recorded Read by a model |
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| Form or filing | None named Read by a model |
| What the suit asked for |
Decide the application
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brings this suit to compel United States government officials to adjudicate the visa applications of her parents, Iranian citizens Nasrin Dizaji and Alireza Garjani. |
| Kind of order |
A transfer order
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The court will deny defendants’ motion to dismiss or transfer for lack of proper venue. |
| Motion decided |
Other motion to dismiss; Transfer
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Defendants’ motion to dismiss or transfer for improper venue, Dkt. 5, is DENIED. |
| Whose motion |
The government's motion
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Defendants’ motion to dismiss or transfer for improper venue, Dkt. 5, is DENIED. |
| Disposition |
Transferred to another court
An order moving the case to another court. It decides where the suit is heard, not who wins, so it is not counted as either side's win.
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The court will deny defendants’ motion to dismiss or transfer for lack of proper venue. |
| Prevailing party |
Neither side
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The court will deny defendants’ motion to dismiss or transfer for lack of proper venue. |
| The delay claim |
Not decided here
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The court will give the plaintiffs until July 10, 2025, to show cause why this case should not be dismissed in light of the president’s travel ban. |
| Months pending | Not stated Read by a model |
| TRAC factors | The court did not weigh the TRAC factors Read by a model |
| Threshold rulings |
Mootness argument rejected
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The presidential proclamation does not moot this case, but it does make it futile as a practical matter because plaintiffs’ visa applications are certain to be denied. |
| Nationality |
Iran
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her parents, Iranian citizens Nasrin Dizaji and Alireza Garjani |
Other orders in this case
The group holds 2 decisions from this suit, oldest first. Outcome counts on these pages count the case once, by its latest decision, this one. How decisions are grouped into cases.
| Decision | Decided | Judge | Disposition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garjani, Mehraveh v. Flores, Pete R. | June 6, 2025 | James D. Peterson | Denied in the government's favor |
| Garjani, Mehraveh v. Flores, Pete R.This decisionThe case's latest decision: its outcome is the one counted | June 30, 2025 | James D. Peterson | Transferred to another court |
How the case ended
- Docket
- No. 3:24-cv-00539
- Filed
- August 5, 2024
- Ended
- September 15, 2026
- Suit's filing to its end
- 771 days
- How it ended
- Dismissed on jurisdiction or the merits
- From the record
- order 2026-09-15 for the defendants, ground not stated
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 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.
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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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Iddir v. INS, 301 F.3d 492
Seventh Circuit, August 6, 2002. INS had a nondiscretionary duty to adjudicate diversity-visa applications and § 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii) does not bar review of a failure to act, but no relief is available once the fiscal year ends.
ImmCite: caution, adverse or limiting treatment found. Questioned by Akash Shahi v. United States Department of S, 33 F.4th 927 (2022).
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Calderon-Ramirez v. McCament, 877 F.3d 272
Seventh Circuit, December 5, 2017. USCIS must process U-visa petitions within a reasonable time, but neither mandamus nor the APA offers relief to an applicant who shows nothing setting him apart from those ahead of him in the oldest-first queue.
ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance. ImmCite has read all 3 published decisions citing this case, as of 2026-11-13; none treats it adversely. That describes those decisions; it is not a determination that the case is good law.
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Pak v. Biden, 91 F.4th 896
Seventh Circuit, January 31, 2024. Consular nonreviewability bars a systemic challenge to how terrorism-related inadmissibility exemptions are considered, a matter the statute commits to the Secretaries' sole unreviewable discretion, and a statutory citation with a facial link to the record satisfies Mandel.
ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance. ImmCite has read all 2 published decisions citing this case, as of 2026-11-13; none treats it adversely. That describes those decisions; it is not a determination that the case is good law.
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Shahi v. United States Department of State, 33 F.4th 927
Seventh Circuit, May 6, 2022. Courts cannot order a diversity visa issued after the fiscal year ends whatever relief is requested, because the statute ends eligibility, and the Mandamus Act supplies a remedy rather than jurisdiction.
ImmCite: unchecked, treatment not confirmed yet, not evidence either way. ImmCite has found no published decision citing this case as of 2026-10-29; it checks for new citing decisions daily. That is not a determination that the case is good law. The citation index lists 10 other decisions citing it, none a Supreme Court, BIA or Attorney General precedent or a published circuit opinion; ImmCite's status does not review them.