HAZAMA v. TILLERSON

No. 15-2982.

851 F.3d 706 (2017)

Samira HAZAMA and Ahmed Abdel Hafiz Ghneim, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Rex W. TILLERSON, Secretary of State, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 20, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julie Ann Goldberg, Attorney, Goldberg & Associates, Bronx, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Craig A. Oswald, Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, Durwood H. Riedel, Attorney, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.

Charles Roth, Attorney, National Immigrant Justice Center, Chicago, IL, for National Immigrant Justice Center, Amicus Curiae.

Before Wood, Chief Judge, and Easterbrook and Williams, Circuit Judges.


In an effort to seek judicial review of a consular official's unfavorable decision on a visa application, Samira Hazama and Ahmed Abdel Hafiz Ghneim filed a petition for a writ of mandamus in the district court for the Northern District of Illinois, where Hazama resides. The district court concluded that it lacked subject-matter...

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