Legal Question in Immigration Law in New York

Waiting too long to get a decision on a petition or an application

If you have been waiting an unreasonably long time to get a decision on your application, and you have already been interviewed by a CIS officer on your application, then you should consider filing a lawsuit in a federal district court to force the CIS to make a decision on your application. Such a lawsuit is called a mandamus. Often times, filing such a lawsuit forces the CIS to act on something that otherwise they would have just waited on for a long time had a lawsuit not been filed.

Re: Waiting too long to get a decision on a petition or an application

It is depends on what kind of application did you filed. Also, it is important to know what do you consider as a long waiting time. In recent years thousand of non citizens filed a complaint, named Mandamus.This complaint is filed in the federal court and seeks to force USCIS to issue a decision on a long delayed applications. Our offices represented number of clients by filing a mandamus complaint. You can contact our office for a free evaluation of your case. Visit us at www.lawmakesadifference.com