Erika Mathews v. USCIS, Miami
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Per curiam
The district court granted summary judgment in favor of Erika Mathews on
her Administrative Procedure Act claim against the U.S. Attorney General, the Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (collectively, “the government”). That claim followed the denial of a visa petition Matthews’ adoptive father had filed on her behalf. The government appeals, contending that the district court erred when it ordered the Board of Immigration Appeals to honor a state court’s nunc pro tunc modification of an adoption date because the district court did not give…
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