Ali

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ROZHYA ALI, Case No. 24-cv-1210-BAS-KSC

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING JOINT

v. MOTION TO STAY (ECF No. 4)

ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS, et al., Defendants. Plaintiff filed this action to seek resolution of his asylum application. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) has scheduled an interview for this application for June 2025 and represents that it can complete adjudication of the application within three months of that interview. (ECF No. 4 at 1.) Therefore, the parties jointly seek a stay of the instant action while that adjudication is in progress. “A district court has discretionary power to stay proceedings in its own court.” Lockyer v. Mirant, 398 F.3d 1098, 1109 (9th Cir. 2005) (citing Landis v. N. Am. Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254 (1936)). “[T]he power to stay proceedings is incidental to the power inherent in every court to control the disposition of the causes on its…