Chairez

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

SOSIMO VERA CHAIREZ, No. 24-4137 D.C. No. Plaintiff - Appellant, 1:22-cv-00291-

AKB

v.

Secretary ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS, Secretary of the U.S. OPINION Department of Homeland Security; UR M. JADDOU, Director of U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS); UNITED STATES

CITIZENSHIP AND

IMMIGRATION SERVICES;

LAURA ZUCHOWSKI, Director of the Vermont Service Center of

USCIS,

Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Idaho Amanda K. Brailsford, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted July 11, 2025 Seattle, Washington Filed March 5, 2026

Before: Susan P. Graber, Carlos T. Bea, and Mark J. Bennett, Circuit Judges.

Per Curiam Opinion; Concurrence by Judge Bea

SUMMARY *

Immigration

The panel affirmed the district court’s dismissal, for lack of jurisdiction, of Plaintiff Sosimo Vera Chairez’s challenge under the Administrative Procedure Act to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services’ denial of his request for a waiver of inadmissibility, which he had sought to be eligible for a U…