United States Fifth Circuit

When a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) examination is premature because a mandatory security investigation is not complete, the 120-day time period of 8 U.S.C. section 1447(b) that allows for judicial adjudication of the matter, does not begin to run until CIS receives the FBI's "definitive response" described in 8 C.F.R. section 335.2(b).

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/19/2007
• Published 06/20/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before REAVLEY, WIENER, and DEMOSS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Imran B. Mirza, Houston, TX, for Walji., Charles Roth, Nat. Imm. Justice Ctr., Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charmaine Aarons Holder, Houston, TX, Elizabeth J. Stevens, OIL, Daniel Jerome Davis, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.