Jaffari

I. BACKGROUND

23 Plaintiff Javid Jaffari, is an Iranian national who claims he is a lawful permanent 24 resident of the United States.1 On September 8, 2019, Plaintiff paid the $725 fee for an 25

27 1 Plaintiff states he “obtained his lawful permanent residency through employment on August 4, 2011” 28 application for citizenship and submitted his N-400 application for adjudication by the Citizenship and Immigration office in San Diego. (“USCIS”). On September 13, 2019, Plaintiff was notified by USCIS to report to an Application Support Center to provide fingerprints. On October 1, 2019 in Seattle, Washington, his fingerprints were obtained. The naturalization application is still pending. Dissatisfied with the lack of progress, on April 25, 2022, Plaintiff filed the current Petition for Writ of Mandamus against Merrick Garland, Attorney General of the United States; Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security; Ur Mendoza Jaddou, Director for Citizenship & Immigration Services; Paul Pierre, District Director for San Diego; and Christopher A. Wray, Director of Federal Bureau of Investigations (collectively…