YOGI METALS GROUP, INC. v. GARLAND

No. 21-20615.

38 F.4th 455 (2022)

YOGI METALS GROUP, INCORPORATED; Vinod Moorjani, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Merrick GARLAND, U.S. Attorney General; United States Department of Homeland Security; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; Gregory A. Richardson, Director, USCIS Texas Service Center; United States of America, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED June 28, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Merina Shakya , Quan Law Group, P.L.L.C., Houston, TX, Sheridan Gary Green , Sheridan Green Law, P.L.L.C., Spring, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Jimmy Anthony Rodriguez , Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office Southern District of Texas, Houston, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Higginbotham, Haynes, and Wilson, Circuit Judges.


Yogi Metals Group, Inc. applied for an EB-1C visa for one of its employees, Vinod Moorjani. The United States Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) denied the application. Yogi Metals and Moorjani filed suit in federal district court, arguing that USCIS acted arbitrarily and capriciously in denying the application. The district court granted...

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