KAKAR v. UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION

Docket No. 20-1512-cv August Term, 2021.

29 F.4th 129 (2022)

Mohamed Qaseem KAKAR, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 28, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael E. Piston , New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant Mohamed Qaseem Kakar.

Layaliza Soloveichik , Assistant United States Attorney ( Varuni Nelson , Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Breon S. Peace , United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY, for Defendant-Appellee United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Before: WALKER, CALABRESI, and LOHIER, Circuit Judges.


Over twenty years ago, an Immigration Judge (IJ) granted Mohamed Qaseem Kakar, an Afghan national, asylum in the United States. When Kakar later applied for lawful permanent residence, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) denied his application because it found that he had engaged in terrorist activity...

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