Jacob

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JANAN VARGHESE JACOB, et al., Case No. 21-cv-00261-EMC

Plaintiffs,

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND

v. DENYING IN PART DEFENDANTS’

MOTION TO DISMISS

JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR. et al., Docket No. 60 Defendants.

12 13 Plaintiffs are 2,196 immigrant visa applicants or their United States citizen and legal permanent resident family members who bring suit on behalf of a putative class of more than 450,000 applicants in the immediate relative and family preference categories, along with a limited number of selectees from the Diversity Visa 2021 lottery program. This suit challenges (1) the legality of Presidential Proclamation 10014 (“P.P. 10014”) and its extensions, which suspended the entry into the United States of most aliens as immigrants subject to certain limited exceptions, and (2) the implementation of P.P. 10014 by the Department of State (“DOS”), which suspended the processing and adjudication of applications from immigrants who were subject to…