John Doe v. Kevin K. McAleenan

Sykes, Circuit Judge.

*911 Plaintiff John Doe, an Iranian national, petitioned for conditional permanent residency in 2013. He used the EB-5 admission category, which offers visas for immigrants who invest in new job-creating enterprises. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service ("USCIS" or "agency") initially approved Doe's petition but revoked its approval roughly two years later.

Doe sought judicial review of the agency's actions under the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA"), 5 U.S.C. §§ 701 et seq . But the district court concluded that Congress had stripped its jurisdiction to…