Legal Opinion

Jafarzadeh v. Nielsen

Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Decided August 6, 2018No. Civil Action No. 16-1385 (JDB)PublishedCited by 23 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

JOHN D. BATES, United States District Judge

All that is old in this case has been made new again. Manouchehr Jafarzadeh, an Iranian national seeking to become a lawful permanent resident ("LPR") of the United States, alleges that his application was placed in a government program that delays and denies immigration petitions on overly broad national security grounds. The government filed a motion to dismiss the first complaint in this matter, arguing, among other things, that the issues in the case must be adjudicated in removal proceedings, to which the government had already consigned…

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