Jaddou

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 WEST COAST REGIONAL CENTER, Case No. 23-cv-06336-PCP

INC.,

8 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS AND DENYING MOTION v. FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT 10 UR JADDOU, Re: Dkt. Nos. 11, 19 11 Defendant.

13 This action involves the treatment of “regional centers” designated under the Immigration and Nationality Act’s EB–5 immigrant investor visa program. Plaintiff West Coast Regional Center (“West Coast”), a Florida-based corporation and regional center first designated in 2015, brings this action against Ur Jaddou in her official capacity as Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”). The Maryland-based agency administers the EB–5 visa program through its Immigrant Investor Program Office (“IPO”) located in the District of Columbia. West Coast challenges USCIS’s treatment of previously authorized regional centers following the enactment of the EB–5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 (“RIA”). USCIS…