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Amoah v. Department of Homeland Security - United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS)

Western District of KentuckyGreg N. StiversDecided December 4, 2023No. 3:22-cv-00677

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What the decision decided

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Agency USCIS Read by a model
USCIS may have had a nondiscretionary duty to adjudicate Plaintiff’s application, but it satisfied this duty when it rendered its decision denying the application.
Form or filing I-485 (adjustment of status) Read by a model
Plaintiff filed a form I- 485 Application 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
Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss (DN 7) is GRANTED, and the Complaint is DISMISSED.
Motion decided Motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction Read by a model
Defendants move to dismiss Count Two of the Complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(1)
Whose motion The government's motion Read by a model
This matter is before the Court on Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss (DN 7)
Disposition Dismissed The case or every delay claim was dismissed for a reason other than mootness. Read by a model
Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss (DN 7) is GRANTED, and the Complaint is DISMISSED.
Prevailing party Government Read by a model
Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss (DN 7) is GRANTED, and the Complaint is DISMISSED.
The other claims Dismissed Read by a model
Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss (DN 7) is GRANTED, and the Complaint is DISMISSED.
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
Applying the Supreme Court’s holding in Pate/, and in accord with federal courts across the nation, Section 1252(a)(2)(B)() deprives this Court of subject matter jurisdiction to review USCIS’s decision.
Nationality Ghana Read by a model
Plaintiff is a citizen of Ghana who resides in Louisville, Kentucky.

How the case ended

Docket
No. 3:22-cv-00677
Filed
December 22, 2022
Ended
December 4, 2023
Suit's filing to its end
347 days
How it ended
Dismissed on jurisdiction or the merits
From the record
order 2023-12-04 for the defendants, ground not stated; idb disp 14 (dismissed: other)

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Supreme Court and Sixth 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.