Al-Kaissey

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 QUSSAY ABDULRAZZAK Case No. 22-cv-1772-BAS-MDD

AL-KAISSEY,

12 Plaintiff, ORDER: 13 v. (1) GRANTING JOINT MOTION TO 14 ALEJANDRO N. MAYORKAS, STAY (ECF No. 9); Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, et al., (2) DIRECTING PARTIES TO FILE 16 Defendants. JOINT STATUS REPORT; AND 17 (3) TERMINATING MOTION TO 18 DISMISS (ECF No. 5) 19 20 Now before this Court is the parties’ joint motion to stay proceedings to allow the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) to complete adjudication of Plaintiff Qussay Abdulrazzak Al-Kaissey (“Plaintiff”)’s Form I-589 Application for Asylum (“I- 589 Application”). (Joint Mot. to Stay at 1:23–26 (“Joint Mot.”), ECF No. 9.) For the reasons stated below, the Court GRANTS the Joint Motion (ECF No. 9), STAYS this action in its entirety, and TERMINATES without prejudice to renewal Defendants’ pending motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction (Mot. to Dismiss, ECF No. 5). I. BACKGROUND…