BABARIA v. BLINKEN

No. 22-16700, No. 22-35702, No. 22-35773.

87 F.4th 963 (2023)

Jigar BABARIA; Miral Patel; Srinivas Mukunda; Naganandini Chitta; S.M., a minor, by and through their guardian Srinivas Mukund; Ravi Cheruku; Swapna Konda; S.C., a minor, by and through their guardian Ravi Cheruk; S.C., a minor, by and through their guardian Ravi Cheruk; Martial Antony Joseph Lourdes Caen Martial; Swapnasree Bangalore Arumugam; R.M.A.J., a minor, by and through their guardian Martial Antony Joseph Lourdes Caen Martia; Sheetal Munjewar; Rupali Munjewar; R.M., a minor, by and through their guardian Sheetal Munjewa; Bhuvarahan Srinivasan; Vaishnavi Kothandaraman; H.B., a minor, by and through their guardian Bhuvarahan Srinivasa; Sanjay Bhave; Ananya Bhave; B.B., a minor, by and through their guardian Sanjay Bhav; Venkat Velagala; Chaitanya Velagala; A.V., a minor, by and through their guardian Venkat Velagal; Mohit Saxena; Garima Saxena; A.S., a minor, by and through their guardian Mohit Saxen; Yogeshkumar Patel; Ruchi Patel; Sahil Shah; Shalini Negi; Vinod Machcharla; Srija Pannala; Nehul Patel; Charmi Patel; Krishna Sunil Yekasi; Lakshmi Krishna Neelima Atla; Bhargava Deepak Konidena; Srinivas Sriram Katuri; Ponnada Soujanya; Srikar Pachva; Praveena Kandimalla; Sujay Shyamsundar Kulkarni; Renuka Chandrakant Chilajwar; Rishi Verma; Shilpa Verma; Jaimin Dave; Disha Dave; Bandan Das; Vidya Daddaladka; Harikanth Banda; Anitha Cheekoti; Gaurav Narula; Nidhi Narula; Anushiya Kandasamy; Manivannan Chellappa; Nithin Soma; Vijay Aravind Rajagopalan; Sharmila Gopalakrishnan; Harish Murthy; Kavya Ramesh Rajan; Keerthi Varman Anna Jayaprakash; Monisha Solai Ashok; Ranjani Pai; Gnanasekaran Govindareddypalayam Thirumal; Jayashree Ramamoorthy; Naga Chandana Koritala; Kaushik Sirvole; Shakthi Arthanari; Madhusudhan Koodige; Mithun Mate; Harsha Sondawale; Sudheer Kumar Essa; Annapurna Jalamadugu; Srinivasa Koppula; Sujatha Battineni; Sudheesh Pillai; Meena Vijayakumar; Vallish Guru Vaidyeshwara; Pallavi Hirannaiah Kalale; Fnu Sreedhar Natarajan; Prasanna Ramachandran; Subhramanya Krishna Chaitanya Panuganti Venkata; Venkata Anusha Gunuganti; Onkar Walavalkar; Purva Joshi; Saratbabu Ginjupalli; Narmada Karthika Chitturi; Nay Thaker; Megha Pabby; Shankar Dheeraj Konidena; Naga Rukmini Sriharika Durga, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Antony J. BLINKEN, Secretary, United States Department of State; Ur M. Jaddou, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Defendants-Appellees. Vikas Singh; Vandana Singh, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Ur M. Jaddou, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Defendant-Appellee. Sidhartha Datta; Milly Sharma; A.D., a minor, by and through their guardian Sidhartha Datta; Nagi Jonnala; Swarna Guntaka; V.S.J., a minor, by and through their guardian Nagi Jonnala; S.J., a minor, by and through their guardian Nagi Jonnala; Srinivasulu Madarapu; Anuradha Madarapu; V.A.C.M., a minor, by and through their guardian Srinivasulu Madarapu; Sathya Prakash Veerichetty; Poorani Dharmasivam; S.S.P., a minor, by and through their guardian Sathya Prakash Veerichetty; Bikram Kumar Sahoo; Namita Mishra; S.S., a minor, by and through their guardian Bikram Kumar Sahoo; S.S., a minor, by and through their guardian Bikram Kumar Sahoo; Shailesh Nirgudkar; Durga Nirgudkar; S.N., a minor, by and through their guardian Shailesh Nirgudkar; Venkata Sudhakar Rao Maddisetty; Sujeevana Pulagam; S.M., a minor, by and through their guardian Venkata Sudhakar Rao Maddisetty; Sandilya Damodara; Jyostna Damodara; S.D., a minor, by and through their guardian Sandilya Damodara; Ashok Jekka Jothikrishnan; Shalini Musuvathy Balasubramanian; Sachintha Jothikrishnan Ashok; Harish Theranikal; Madhulika Theranikal; R.T., a minor, by and through their guardian Harish Theranikal; Abdul Sameer Shaik; Reshmin Contractor; R.S.A., a minor, by and through their guardian Abdul Sameer Shaik; Viswanadha Regadamilli; Sridevi Regadamilli; R.S., a minor, by and through their guardian Viswanadha Regadamilli; Ramanan Rengaraj; Sivasankari Ramanan; R.R., a minor, by and through their guardian Ramanan Rengaraj; Vidyadhar Jangale; Manisha Jangale; Rishikesh Jangale; Ranadheer R. Vangate; Prudhvi Reddy Baddam; Abilasha Rangarajan; Venkatraman Rajagopal; P.V., a minor, by and through their guardian Abilasha Rangarajan; Mukul Sathe; Aparna Sathe; P.S., a minor, by and through their guardian Mukul Sathe; Saravanan Sanmugavel; Muthulakshmi Ramachandran; P.S., a minor, by and through their guardian Saravanan Sanmugavel; Deva Suresh Dachuri; Meena Dachuri; P.M.Y.D., a minor, by and through their guardian Deva Suresh Dachuri; Nutan Kunala; Meena Chitturi; P.M.K., a minor, by and through their guardian Nutan Kunala; Manivannan Venkataramanujam; Chitra Seenivasan; P.M., a minor, by and through their guardian Manivannan Venkataramanujam; Senthil Vel Gunasekaran; N.S., a minor, by and through their guardian Senthil Vel Gunasekaran; Sandeep Deshpande; Devyani Deshpande; M.S.D., a minor, by and through their guardian Sandeep Deshpande; Kodamana Shimjith Divakar; Renjima Divakar; Malavika Divakar; M.D., a minor, by and through their guardian Kodamana Shimjith Divakar; Krishna Rao Raparla; Devi Raparla; L.S.R., a minor, by and through their guardian Krishna Rao Raparla; R.R., a minor, by and through their guardian Krishna Rao Raparla; Vijayabhaskara Kunam; Sumalatha Siddareddy; L.K., a minor, by and through their guardian Vijayabhaskara Kunam; Waseem Sheriff Humayoon Sheriff; Hameeda Foiz Waseem Sheriff; L.E.W.S., a minor, by and through their guardian Waseem Sheriff Humayoon Sheriff; Narayana Latchi; Kusuma Latchi; Lakshmi Latchi; S.L., a minor, by and through their guardian Narayana Latchi; Fnu Madhu Sudan; Himani Kapoor; K.K., a minor, by and through their guardian Fnu Madhu Sudan; Jayaprakash Radhakrishnan; Thirupurasundari Jayaprakash; K.J., a minor, by and through their guardian Jayaprakash Radhakrishnan; Anuj Jaiswal; Madhulika Jain; K.J., a minor, by and through their guardian Anuj Jaiswal; Gautam Gupta; K.G., a minor, by and through their guardian Gautam Gupta; Nagendra Gondhi; Yashika Ketipalli; K.G., a minor, by and through their guardian Nagendra Gondhi; Babul Ganesina; Naga Ganesina; J.G., a minor, by and through their guardian Babul Ganesina; D.G., a minor, by and through their guardian Babul Ganesina; Pranav Singh; Harpreet Kaur; I.K., a minor, by and through their guardian Pranav Singh; Vishal Ayapilla; Venkata Santosh Rupa Kumari Ayapilla; H.A., a minor, by and through their guardian Vishal Ayapilla; Umakant Patel; Ramyata Patel; D.U.P., a minor, by and through their guardian Umakant Patel; Tapan K Das; Neerja Sahu; D.D., a minor, by and through their guardian Tapan K Das; S.K.D., a minor, by and through their guardian Tapan K Das; Sushil Kumar; Shivani Sharma; Ayushi Sharma; Pavan Devulapally; Swapna Madhuri Namavarapu; A.S.D., a minor, by and through their guardian Pavan Devulapally; Anurag Sharma; Nidhi Sharma; Ayushi Sharma; Jeetendra Roddam; Vasavi Roddam; A.R., a minor, by and through their guardian Jeetendra Roddam; N.R., a minor, by and through their guardian Jeetendra Roddam; Jayant Namjoshi; Sarita Namjoshi; A.J.N., a minor, by and through their guardian Jayant Namjoshi; Lakshmi Isukapally; Sayeeram Gundu; Abhiraam Gundu; A.G., a minor, by and through their guardian Lakshmi Isukapally; Laxmi Kondapalli; Praveen Devarapally; Abhinav Devarapally; Anoop Gopalakrishnan; Devi Parvati Chitra; A.A.M., a minor, by and through their guardian Anoop Gopalakrishnan; Venkata Natti; Aswini Kette; Chandra Kota; Ramyah Rammohan Syamala; Rajendra Danda; Lakshmi Ramya Silpa Alapati; Neethu Elizabeth Simon; Boben Philip; Venkata Vishnu Chakradhara Rao Jyothula; Kiranmai Madduri; Shashikant Tiwari; Rita Tiwari; Chandrashekhar Bharatipudi; Preethi Nagaraju; Narayana Murthy Chunduri; Lakshmi Sowjanya Mundluri; Kartik Desai; Darshana Desai; Amey Parmarthi; Poorna Dhamankar; Umang Bhardwaj; Eesha Acharya; Snehal M Patel; Kirti Vegad; Raghavendar Ambala; Krishna Regani; Anoop Balakrishnan Radhamma; Remya Nekkuth Melath; Renjith Chandran Pillai; Sreeparvathy Jayalekshmi; Balaji Chidambaram; Sangeetha Parthiban; Rajesh Upadhyay; Prerna Singh; Thennarasu Eswaran; Gowridevi Natarajan; Srinivas Jakkula; Nayeentara Atmakur; Yethendra Paida; Ramya Settigiri; Akshil Shah; Karishma Shah; Bhagya Shree Shekhawat; Sandeep Shekhawat; Chethan Rao; Deepti Bettampadi; Arvind Rangarajan; Aiswarya Arvind; Kiran Avvaru; Chandana Metikala; Himani Ajay Manglani; Ajay Manglani; Srikiran Nelli; Venkata Paramsetty; Mayankkumar Patel; Mitviben Garachh; Kanchan Anandmadhav Damle; Hardik Shankarlal Modi; Pushpak Arvind Kulkarni; Prajakta Sudhir Gokhale; Vamshi Basika; Milka Basika; Arpit Agarwal; Shweta Amarjeet Singh; Vijay Mohan Ragi; Bhuvana Devi Ganesan; Akhil Kamma; Apoorva Buggaveeti; Mohit Kumar Mahajan; Shradha Mahajan; Rishi Mashelkar; Payal Tade; Nanda Kishore Reddy Veerapu Reddy; Uma Maheswari Nagella; Raziuddin Mohammed; Sabina Khan; Chaithanya Botta Krishna; Keerthi Sree Kantam; Chandrasekhar Gaddipati; Tejaswi Mummaneni; Harshavardhan Shivaram Gangolli Bhat; Niyata Harshavardhan Bhat; Kannapiran Kaleeswaran Sampath; Sindhuja Selvan; Bhagya Naga Raja Mukkamala; Revathi Devi Mukkamala; Bharath Ramkumar; Vasanthi Narayanan; Shakeer Ahmed Mohammad; Sadiya Sultana; Nagarjuna Parupalli; Narmadha Rajkumar; Srajan Kumar Mallineni; Sindhu Koneru; Sai Kiran Togita; Sai Krushi Vallakonda; Subrahmanya Vedantham; Supraja Nagamangalam; Khwaja Mohinuddin Khan; No Name Given Waseem Banu; Kadhiry Salai Abdul Khaliqu; Halima Sanofer Seyed Mogdoom; Anirudha Bokil; Kavita Kamtikar; Harshitkumar Parmar; Sefali Jadav; Srinu Babu Janyavula; Bhargavi Yerrapothu; Prasad Mohapatra Sakti; Debahruti Mishra; Lakshmikanthan Kasi; Revathi Baala Janakiraman; Kirthinidhi Bandakgangadhar; Shailaja Patil; Arati Kelekar; Anupam Sule; Ragesh Ramchandran Nair; Nivedita Nair; Mayankkumar Patel; Amruta Patel; Sreeharsha Panguluri; Lavanya Inampudi; Chintan Maheshkumar Vakharia; Khushali Vakharia; Sasanka Annapureddy; Harika Boddu; Padma Katapalli; Madhusudhan Pantula; Kalyan Alugubelly; Naga Harisha Karanam; Priyanka Anand; Arun Sharma; Krishna Rao Mokirala; Swathi Murahari; Payal Mutha; Yashraj Kurani; Vikranth Chalasani; Manasa Ambati; Swetalkumar Brahmbhatt; Meha Desai; Karthik Rajashekaran; Mayank Srivastava; Pratiksha Madanswaroop Saxena; Amitkumar Umedkumar Tanna; Khyati Tarunkumar Shah; Venkata Ramana Dhuggishetty; Shirisha Ramakumar Valakonda; Alvin George; Joise Joy Kallarakkal; Vikranth Chalasani; Manasa Ambati; Surya Kamal Kiran Kuchibhotla; Prathyusha Dwivedula; Prashant Dhodla; Sravani Kommuri; Krishna Chaitanya Medasani; Swapna Patchava; Anurag Ambekar; Anuja Deshpande; Arnab Som; Arupa Som; Nikhil Upadhyay; Archita Upadhyay; Venkata Sri Sai Archana Sthanam; Rohit Bhosekar; Kaushik Venkatesan Sundaresa; Mahalaxmi Krishnamurthy; Ananda Roy; Tamasi Roy; Kaushik Venkatesan Sundaresa; Mahalaxmi Krishnamurthy; Narayan Rajaram; Arthi Uthamarajan; Veera Maddimsetti; Radha Gowri Maddimsetti; Srikanth Gadeela; Priyadarshini Gadeela; Ramya Uthamarajan; Ranjani Pai; Deepak Chaman Chhabra; Palak Arora; Gayathri Devi Athreyapurapu; Kiran Kumar Reddy Endreddy; Durga Vara Prasada Rao Narindi Tulasi Venkata; Swathi Maley; Praneeth Kumar Challa; Vidya Aery; Harish Chanda; Venkata Bodla; Ranganath Linguntla; Sandyarani Gali; Praveen Kumar Manthri; Swetha Merugu; Sailatha Chandrasekar; Rashpal Singh Gill; Jaspreet Kaur Gill; Sairam Thennetti Subbaraman; Eswara Rao Changhalasetty; Praneetha Lella; Subrahmanyam Addala; Sirisha Tanneru; Naveen Vemula; Sindhura Bojja; Tejvarun Garlapati; Madhuswetha Pesala; Gautam Parab; Manisha Parab; Sahithi Vidukulla; Saketh Gaggenapalli; Shramika Reddy Bojja; Kishore Bramhamdam Phanindra Siva; Chetana Madiraju; Kishore Bramhamdam Phanindra Siva; Chetana Madiraju; Kishore Kumar Raju Alluri; Naga Monika Penmetsa; Venkata Satish Potineni; Dharitri Bollini; Ashish Chitalia; Shruti Chitalia; Chaithanya Vanama; Keerthi Tadakamalla; Ashok Kandikanti; Pooja Sabgani; Vijay K Thummaipalli; Naga Venkata Lakshmi Pavani Burela; Ranjana Regunatha Sarma; Shriram Krishnan; Pramod Lumburu; Sarnaya Gunasekaran; Bhavana Varala; Karan Vinay K Paspulete; Wilson Victor Gomes; Mariya Laveena Rodrigues; Ankush Bhatia; Fnu Kiran Jot Kaur; Ajit Rajagopal Venkatesan; Arthi Nagarajan; Kishore Kurapati; Kavitha Kota; Bhaskar Apparaju Venkata; Padmaja Ganugapaty; Kranthi Kottha; Aarti Rangwar; Anil Kakumanu; Alekhya Kurmala; Mukund Rajendran; Sowmiya Venkataramakrishnan; Haneesh Kumar Pepala; Kranthi Nallamothu; Rohit Kumar Ambala; Karthick Kumar Kavindapadi Nagarajan; Vishay Vanjani; Tanvi Galohda; Bhargava Kalathuru; Swapna Reddy Baitapalli; Mansi Pedgaonkar; Hrishikesh Tendulkar; Uday Maripalli; Shalini Ravi; Yashwanth Sheelavathi Kamalanath; No Name Given Melkote Sundar Rajan Nagabrinda; Sneha Nagendra; Ashish Amarnath; Gaurav Rajasekar; Vidya Sadanandan; Bhupender Panwar; Seema Malik; Sateesh Nagulapally; Keerthana Bacharaju; Vasanth Kumar Nagarajan; Priyadarshini Ravikumar; Shanthan Reddy Pasham; Kiranmayee Kandadi; Gaurav Anand (No Last Name); Shelly Juneja; Chandana Tummala; Srikanth Makineni; Rajesh Sagire; Radhika Akula; Mayur Patel; Ankita Patel; Anand Venkateswaran; Vidhya Anand; Mahesh Chudamani; Deepika Dixit; Payal Shantilal Mutha; Yashraj Kurani; Parikshit Sharma; Misha Sharma, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Ur M. Jaddou, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; Antony J. Blinken, Secretary, United States Department of State, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 1, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brad Banias (argued), Banias Law LLC, Charleston, South Carolina, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Alessandra Faso (argued) and Joseph G. Nose , Trial Attorneys; Glenn M. Girdharry , Deputy Director; William C. Peachey , Director; Brian M. Boynton , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General; United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, District Court Section, Washington, D.C.; Elizabeth D. Kurlan , Trial Attorney, United States Department of Justice, United States Attorney's Office, San Francisco, California; for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: Jacqueline H. Nguyen and Andrew D. Hurwitz, Circuit Judges, and Philip S. Gutierrez, Chief District Judge.


OPINION

Plaintiffs, natives of India, have lawfully worked in the United States for years. Their employers sponsored them for an immigrant visa—the first step to obtaining a "green card" entitling them to lawful permanent resident status. But due to the long and arduous process, plaintiffs have been waiting...

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