Khalili-Araghi
Khalili-Araghi v. Bitter
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division FARKHONDEH KHALILI-ARAGHI, Case No. 23-cv-00696-LB
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING SUMMARY
v. JUDGMENT TO THE DEFENDANTS
RENA BITTER, et al., Re: ECF No. 13 Defendants. 16 INTRODUCTION In 2013, the plaintiff Farkhondeh Khalili-Araghi, who is seventy-seven years old and in ailing health, filed a visa petition for her daughter Fatemeh Firouzeh Iran Nejad, who lives in Iran. In March 2021, Ms. Iran Nejad was deemed “documentarily qualified,” meaning qualified “to apply formally for an immigrant visa.” 22 C.F.R. § 40.1(h). But the next step in the process for Ms. Iran Nejad to apply — an interview with a consular officer at the U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi — still hasn’t happened. The plaintiff thus filed a petition for a writ of mandamus under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the Mandamus Act to compel the U.S. Department of State to take action…