Doe v. United States Department of State

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA M. DOE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Case No. 1:26-cv-01270 (TNM) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM ORDER This lawsuit targets the State Department’s pause on immigrant visas for nationals of 75 countries. Am. Compl., ECF No. 14, ¶ 1. More than 80 Plaintiffs, including U.S. citizens or permanent residents and their noncitizen spouses or relatives, id. ¶ 5, challenge Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s cable instructing consular officers to “‘refuse under [ 8 U.S.C. § 1201(g)] . . . all immigrant visa applicants…