Donskoy
Donskoy v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 SERGEY DONSKOY, Case No. 21-cv-04757-CRB
Plaintiff,
ORDER ON CROSS-MOTIONS FOR
v. SUMMARY JUDGMENT
UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP AND
IMMIGRATION SERVICES,
12 Defendant. 13 Pro se Plaintiff Sergey Donskoy, a Russian citizen, petitioned Defendant United States 14 Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to classify him as an “alien of extraordinary 15 ability” and thereby grant him an “employment-based first-preference” immigrant visa, also 16 known as an EB-1. See generally Compl. (dkt. 1). USCIS denied Donskoy’s petition, and 17 Donskoy brought suit challenging that decision under the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). 18 Id. Donskoy filed a motion for partial summary judgment, P. Mot. (dkt. 21),1 and USCIS filed its 19 own motion for summary judgment in response,2 Gov. Mot. (dkt. 22); see also P. Reply; Gov.
21 1 Donskoy fashions his motion as one for partial summary judgment, and explicitly states that he is not seeking judgment on his “claim that the agency…