Hickory Foods, Inc. v. Honorable Alejandro Mayorkas

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HICKORY FOODS, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 1:21-cv-1196 (CJN) ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION Hickory Foods, Inc. submitted a petition with the Department of Homeland Security to hire a foreign worker. See generally Compl., ECF No. 1. Homeland Security denied the petition because it failed to include all the required documentation. Id. The company’s subsequent efforts to correct the failure proved futile because a component of the petition known as the “labor certification” had expired by…