Mandamus decisions / Northern District of California
Wang v. Edlow
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What the decision decided
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| Agency |
USCIS
Read by a model
USCIS engages in a multi-step process when evaluating an application for adjustment of status. |
|---|---|
| Form or filing |
I-485 (adjustment of status)
Read by a model
They challenge the Government’s failure to timely adjudicate their I-485 Applications to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status |
| What the suit asked for |
Decide the application
Read by a model
They challenge the Government’s failure to timely adjudicate their I-485 Applications to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status |
| Kind of order |
A ruling on a motion or the petition
Read by a model
For the foregoing reasons, the Government’s Motion to Dismiss is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART. |
| Motion decided |
Motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction; Motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim; Other motion to dismiss
Read by a model
For the foregoing reasons, the Government’s Motion to Dismiss is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART. |
| Whose motion |
The government's motion
Read by a model
For the foregoing reasons, the Government’s Motion to Dismiss is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART. |
| Disposition |
Dismissed in part; some claims go on
The government's motion to dismiss was granted in part: some claims were dismissed and others go on.
Read by a model
The Court finds that it has jurisdiction to address Plaintiffs’ pace-of-adjudication claims. |
| Prevailing party |
Each side in part
Read by a model
The Court finds that it has jurisdiction to address Plaintiffs’ pace-of-adjudication claims. |
| The delay claim |
The delay claim goes on
Read by a model
The Court finds that it has jurisdiction to address Plaintiffs’ pace-of-adjudication claims. |
| The other claims |
Dismissed
Read by a model
The Court finds that it has subject matter jurisdiction to hear this case but DISMISSES all Plaintiffs’ Due Process claims with leave to amend. |
| Months pending |
65 months from the application to the court's decision
Read by a model
As of the date of this Order, Plaintiffs’ I-485 Applications have been pending for between 65 months and 16 months. |
| TRAC factors | The court did not weigh the TRAC factors Read by a model |
| Threshold rulings |
Section 1252(a)(2)(B) bar rejected
Read by a model
The Court finds that it has jurisdiction to address Plaintiffs’ pace-of-adjudication claims. |
How the case ended
- Docket
- No. 5:25-cv-10689
- Filed
- December 15, 2025
- Ended
- August 28, 2026
- Suit's filing to its end
- 256 days
- How it ended
- Ended once the agency acted
- From the record
- voluntary dismissal 2026-08-28
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 Ninth 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 3, 2026. Check the current status before relying on one.
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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.
ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance
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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.
ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance
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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.
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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Spencer Enterprises, Inc. v. United States, 345 F.3d 683
Ninth Circuit, September 17, 2003. Section 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii) covers only discretion specified by statute, so denials of EB-5 investor petitions remain reviewable; the Tenth Circuit declined to follow it, but it binds in the Ninth.
ImmCite: caution, adverse or limiting treatment found. Rejected in the Tenth Circuit by Yerkovich v. Ashcroft, 381 F.3d 990 (2004).
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Vega v. USCIS, 65 F.4th 469
Ninth Circuit, April 14, 2023. If a statute makes a decision wholly discretionary, regulations or agency practice cannot make it reviewable or exempt it from § 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii).
ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance
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Independence Mining Co. v. Babbitt, 105 F.3d 502
Ninth Circuit, January 23, 1997. Mandamus and APA § 706(1) claims to compel delayed agency action are analyzed alike under the TRAC factors.
ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance
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Vaz v. Neal, 33 F.4th 1131
Ninth Circuit, May 9, 2022. Section 706(1) compels only a clear, mandatory and discrete duty that has been unreasonably delayed under TRAC, and the APA's prerequisites go to the merits while § 1331 supplies jurisdiction.
ImmCite: unchecked, treatment not confirmed yet, not evidence either way. ImmCite has found no published decision citing this case as of 2026-11-03; it checks for new citing decisions daily. That is not a determination that the case is good law. The citation index lists 144 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.