AMIN v. MAYORKAS

No. 21-20212.

24 F.4th 383 (2022)

Bhaveshkumar AMIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Alejandro MAYORKAS, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Ur M. Jaddou, Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Acting Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; Gregory Richardson, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Texas Service Center; Officer XM1698; United States of America, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed: January 24, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheridan Gary Green , Sheridan Green Law, P.L.L.C., Houston, TX, for Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Vanessa Molina , U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Eleanor Ann Robinson-Gaither, Esq. , Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellee Alejandro Mayorkas.

Vanessa Molina , U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC for Defendants-Appellees Tracy Renaud , Ur M. Jaddou , Gregory Richardson, Officer XM1698, United States of America.

Before King, Costa, and Willett, Circuit Judges.


Hoping to draw the world's best and brightest to American shores, the law has long given preferential treatment to highly talented immigrants. See Emergency Quota Act of 1921, 42 Stat. 5, § 2(d) (exempting artists and members of "learned profession[s]" from nationality-based immigration quotas). Over the years...

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