Forms and filings

I-90 (green card renewal)

Written decisions in the mandamus and agency-delay group that name this form or filing, in every court.

2,996 written decisions from 2,731 cases in the whole mandamus and agency-delay group, the group's newest decided November 12, 2026. Updated November 14, 2026 at 1:17 a.m. CT; the Passim connector counts the live collection, which can differ by the day's additions and retirements (which total to quote). Coverage: of the 1,617 public decisions since January 1, 2025 that a CourtListener and GovInfo search for mandamus and agency delay finds, Passim holds 1,406 (87%), 1,039 of them in this group, measured November 14, 2026. Some of what that search finds are not mandamus decisions. Tell us about a decision we're missing.

These are counts of past written decisions and dockets, not predictions of how any case will be decided. A distribution appears only when at least 5 decisions (or 5 dockets) are behind it; smaller groups are listed, not summarized. How it's counted.

How the decisions came out

This page counts 7 of the group's written decisions, from 7 cases; the newest of them was decided October 16, 2026. The line at the top counts the whole group.

7written decisions
7cases they come from
1decisions weigh the TRAC factors
–median months from the application to the suit

Each case counts once in these outcome counts, by its latest decision here. A motion to dismiss denied and a later judgment for the government count as the judgment. How decisions are grouped into cases.

Disposition, by case

  • Dismissed3
  • Magistrate judge's recommendation2
  • Transferred to another court1
  • Attorney's fees1

Prevailing party, by case

  • Applicant1
  • Government3
  • Neither side3

Months from the application to the suit

Fewer than five cases state it (2); no distribution is shown.

Months from the application to the court's decision, or to the agency's action where it acted first

11.5 months at the median; half fall between 11.4 and 16.4. 5 decisions state it.

In 1 of these the agency acted before the decision, so the months run to that action, where the delay ended.

Leaves out the 1 decision holding that the agency had acted where no reading dates that action: its months to the decision are not a delay.

What the suits asked for, by case

  • Decide the application2
  • Some other action5

Agency, by case

  • USCIS4
  • ICE2
  • Not recorded1

Forms and filings these cases name

  • I-90 (green card renewal)7
  • DS-260 (immigrant visa)1
  • I-485 (adjustment of status)1
  • I-589 (asylum)1
  • I-751 (removal of conditions)1

A case that names another form beside this one is counted under both.

Decisions by year

Download these 7 decisions as a spreadsheet (CSV).

Examples

The newest case with each of the most common dispositions, by its latest decision.

Rulings on the government's threshold defenses

How many of the decisions in the group that name this form applied each defense (the defense held) and how many rejected it. A decision counts where it rules on the defense, so most count under none or one. Each count opens those decisions in the list.

DefenseAppliedRejected
Section 1252(a)(2)(B) jurisdiction bar 00
Consular nonreviewability 00
No duty to re-adjudicate a 221(g) refusal 00
Mootness (the agency acted) 10
APA adequate-remedy bar to mandamus 10

This page covers written decisions only: a suit's form is known mostly from its written decision, so counting suits by form would keep mostly the contested ones (how forms are read).