Mandamus decisions / Northern District of Texas
Hamza v. Noem
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What the decision decided
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| Agency |
USCIS
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Yet U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) hasn’t adjudicated his application. |
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| Form or filing |
I-589 (asylum)
Read by a model
He moved to Texas and enrolled in the University of North Texas, where after graduation in 2022, he filed a Form I-589 application for asylum with USCIS. |
| What the suit asked for |
Decide the asylum application
Read by a model
He asks this Court to compel the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (the Secretary) to accelerate adjudication of his asylum application. |
| Kind of order |
A ruling on a motion or the petition
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For the foregoing reasons, the Court GRANTS the Secretary’s motion to dismiss and DISMISSES WITHOUT PREJUDICE Hamza’s petition for a writ of mandamus. |
| Motion decided |
Motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction
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The Secretary moved to dismiss under Federal Rule 12(b)(1) and 12(b)(6). |
| Whose motion |
The government's motion
Read by a model
The Secretary moved to dismiss under Federal Rule 12(b)(1) and 12(b)(6). |
| Disposition |
Dismissed
The case or every delay claim was dismissed for a reason other than mootness.
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For the foregoing reasons, the Court GRANTS the Secretary’s motion to dismiss and DISMISSES WITHOUT PREJUDICE Hamza’s petition for a writ of mandamus. |
| Prevailing party |
Government
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For the foregoing reasons, the Court GRANTS the Secretary’s motion to dismiss and DISMISSES WITHOUT PREJUDICE Hamza’s petition for a writ of mandamus. |
| The delay claim |
Dismissed
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For the foregoing reasons, the Court GRANTS the Secretary’s motion to dismiss and DISMISSES WITHOUT PREJUDICE Hamza’s petition for a writ of mandamus. |
| Months pending |
44.7 months from the application to the court's decision
Read by a model
Mohamed Khalid Snousi Hamaza (Hamza), a Libyan national, applied for asylum in 2022 and completed his biometrics appointment in early 2023. |
| 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
Because the timing of asylum adjudication falls within the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security, the INA cannot confer jurisdiction over this matter. |
| Nationality |
Libya
Read by a model
Hamza, a Libyan national, initially entered the United States with an F-2 Visa |
How the case ended
- Docket
- No. 3:25-cv-01710
- Filed
- July 1, 2025
- Ended
- July 27, 2026
- Suit's filing to its end
- 391 days
- How it ended
- Ended, outcome not recorded
- From the record
- terminated; no disposition recorded
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 Fifth Circuit authority
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Kucana v. Holder, 558 U.S. 233
Supreme Court, January 20, 2010. Section 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii) bars review only of decisions whose discretionary character is specified by statute, not discretion the agency gives itself by regulation.
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Patel v. Garland, 596 U.S. 328
Supreme Court, May 16, 2022. Section 1252(a)(2)(B)(i) bars review of any judgment regarding the granting of the listed forms of relief, including the factual findings on which a denial of adjustment rests.
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Bouarfa v. Mayorkas, 604 U.S. 6
Supreme Court, December 10, 2024. Revoking an approved visa petition under § 1155 is a discretionary decision or action that § 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii) places beyond judicial review.
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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.
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Cheejati v. Blinken, 106 F.4th 388
Fifth Circuit, July 5, 2024. The pace at which USCIS adjudicates adjustment applications during visa retrogression is a discretionary action under § 1255(a) that § 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii) shields from review, agreeing with the Eighth Circuit's Thigulla.
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Mendoza-Tarango v. Flores, 982 F.3d 395
Fifth Circuit, December 8, 2020. A § 706(1) or mandamus claim requires a discrete, legally required action, and USCIS had no nondiscretionary duty to administer the naturalization oath at a prison.
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