Leobardo Moreno GALVEZ; Jose Luis Vicente Ramos; Angel De Jesus Munoz Olivera, on behalf of themselves as individuals and others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
Ur M. JADDOU, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary, United States Department of Homeland Security; Robert Cowan, Director, National Benefits Center; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Defendants-Appellants.
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Argued and Submitted March 9, 2022 Portland, Oregon.
Katelyn Massetta-Alvarez (argued) and Elizabeth R. Veit , Trial Attorneys; William C. Silvis , Assistant Director; William C. Peachey , Office of Immigration Litigation Director, District Court Section; Brian M. Boynton , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division; Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Matt Waldrop , Assistant U.S. Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Seattle, Washington; for Defendants-Appellants.
Catherin Weiss , Tracy Buffer , Amanda K. Cipriano , and Maxine Peskens , Lowenstein Sandler LLP, Roseland, New Jersey, for Amici Curiae Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc. (Clinic), Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services Inc., The Door, Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project, Immigrant Justice Corps, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, The Legal Aid Society, New Jersey Consortium for Immigrant Children, Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project (PAIR), Public Counsel, Safe Passage Project, and Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights.
Partial Dissent by Judge Graber.
OPINION
BEA, Circuit Judge.
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") administers the Special Immigrant Juveniles ("SIJ") program, which provides certain immigrant juveniles a pathway to lawful permanent residence status. Federal law requires the "[e]xpeditious adjudication" of SIJ petitions: "[a]ll applications for...
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