Free Motion to Remand to Agency - District Court of California - California

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KAREN P. HEWITT United States Attorney MEGAN CALLAN Assistant U.S. Attorney California Bar No. 230329 U.S. Attorney's Office 880 Front Street, Room 6293 San Diego, CA 92101-8893 Telephone: (619) 557-7120 Facsimile: (619) 557-5004 E-mail: [email protected] Counsel for Defendants UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

11 HANY M. ABDOU, 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) MICHAEL CHERTOFF, Secretary,) Department of Homeland Security; EMILO) GONZALEZ, Director, United States) Citizenship and Immigration Services;) PAUL PIERRE, District Director, U.S.) Citizenship and Immigration Services, San) Diego District; CHRISTINA POULOS,) Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration) Services, California Service Center;) MICHAEL B. MUKASEY, U.S. Attorney) General; ROBERT MUELLER, Director,) Federal Bureau of Investigation, ) ) Defendants. ) ___________________________________ )

Case No. 07cv2292-BTM (NLS) JOINT MOTION TO REMAND TO USCIS

COME NOW THE PARTIES, Plaintiff Hany Abdou, by and through his counsel, Leah W.

23 Hurwitz, and Defendants Michael Chertoff, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, et al., by 24 and through their counsel, Karen P. Hewitt, United States Attorney, and Megan Callan, Assistant United 25 States Attorney, and hereby jointly move the Court to remand this case to United States Citizenship & 26 Immigration Services ("USCIS") for adjudication. 27 // 28 //

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Plaintiff applied for naturalization under 8 U.S.C. § 1421 et seq. on or about November 8, 2005.

2 Plaintiff complains that Defendants have failed to process his application in a timely manner and prays 3 this Court order the adjudication of his application or otherwise order the expedition of the administrative 4 processing of his naturalization application. 5 The Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") informed Plaintiff through counsel that his FBI

6 background check is complete, therefore any claims against the FBI are now moot. USCIS informed 7 Plaintiff through counsel that USCIS is prepared to adjudicate his application. Remand to USCIS is 8 required in order for the agency to adjudicate. See United States v. Hovsepian, 359 F.3d 1144, 1160-61 9 (9th Cir. 2004) (en banc). 10 Therefore, the parties jointly request that the Court remand this case to USCIS for adjudication.

11 In the event that USCIS does not adjudicate Plaintiff's application for naturalization within 30 days of 12 the entry of remand order, Defendants do not object to Plaintiff being granted 30 days leave to amend 13 his Complaint before this Court. 14 Based upon the foregoing, it is respectfully requested that the Court enter an order remanding this

15 case to USCIS. 16 17 Dated: 18 19 March 13, 2008 s/ Leah W. Hurwitz Counsel for Plaintiff E-Mail: [email protected]

Pursuant to Section 2(f)(4) of the Electronic Case Filing Administrative Policies and Procedures

20 of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, I certify that the content of this 21 document is acceptable to counsel for the Plaintiff and that I have obtained authorization from Leah 22 Hurwitz to affix her electronic signature to this document. 23 Dated: 24 25 s/ Megan Callan 26 27 28 2 MEGAN CALLAN Assistant U.S. Attorney Counsel for Defendants Email: [email protected] March 13, 2008 Respectfully Submitted, KAREN P. HEWITT United States Attorney

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1 KAREN P. HEWITT United States Attorney 2 MEGAN CALLAN Assistant U.S. Attorney 3 California Bar No. 230329 U.S. Attorney's Office 4 880 Front Street, Room 6293 San Diego, CA 92101-8893 5 Telephone: (619) 557-7120 Facsimile: (619) 557-5004 6 E-mail: [email protected] 7 Counsel for Defendants 8 9 10 11 HANY M. ABDOU, 12 13 14 15 16 ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) MICHAEL CHERTOFF, Secretary,) Department of Homeland Security; et al, ) ) Defendants. ) ___________________________________ ) Case No. 07cv2292-BTM (NLS) UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

PROOF OF SERVICE

17 IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED THAT: 18 19 I am not a party to the above-entitled action. I have caused service of: JOINT MOTION TO 20 REMAND TO USCIS on the following party by electronically filing the foregoing with the Clerk of the District Court using its ECF System, which electronically provides notice. 21 Leah W. Hurwitz 22 Counsel for Plaintiff E-Mail: [email protected] 23 I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. 24 Executed on March 13, 2008. 25 s/ Megan Callan Megan Callan 26 27 28 I, the undersigned, am a citizen of the United States and am at least eighteen years of age. My business address is 880 Front Street, Room 6293, San Diego, California 92101-8893.

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