Caplash v. Johnson

DECISION AND ORDER

ELIZABETH A. WOLFORD, United States District Judge

INTRODUCTION

Over ten years ago, Plaintiff Jolly Manoj Caplash (“Plaintiff’) filed a Form 1-130 family-based immigration petition on behalf of his brother with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (“US-CIS”). Plaintiff later relocated and did not update his address with USCIS. As a result, he did not receive USCIS’s request for evidence and notice of the denial of the petition until nearly three years after-the-fact. He filed two motions to reopen his petition, both of which were denied as untimely.

Plaintiff…