Zuchowski

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division DELMAR SILVERIO CHUIL CHULIN, Case No. 21-cv-00016-LB

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING MOTION TO

v. DISMISS

LAURA B. ZUCHOWSKI, et al., Re: ECF No. 25 Defendants. 16 INTRODUCTION The plaintiff is a citizen of Mexico who entered the United States unlawfully in 2003 at age eighteen. In 2012, the federal government began removal proceedings, charging him with inadmissibility because he was a noncitizen present in the U.S. without permission. The plaintiff subsequently was a victim of an aggravated assault and cooperated with the police in their investigation. That cooperation allowed him to petition in 2016 for U nonimmigrant status, called a U visa, by submitting Form I-918, Petition for U Nonimmigration Status (known as a U Visa Petition).1 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15)(U); 8 C.F.R. § 214.14(b). The petition was his only ground for relief in his removal…