Appeals and Federal Court Litigation

If you have received an adverse decision from USCIS or Immigration Court, you have the right to appeal the decision to the Administrative Appeals Office, or the Board of Immigration Appeals. You may also have the right to appeal a decision to a federal court. Julie Ferguson began her legal career as a federal court litigator. She does not shy away from appealing adverse decisions or initiating federal court action against the Department of Homeland Security or its affiliated agencies if such steps are necessary to resolve adjudication delays or complicated legal matters. The Firm has had tremendous success challenging delayed adjustment and naturalization applications in federal district court. In a recent victory for one of the firms client’s, the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida remanded a Cuban adjustment application to USCIS for prompt action holding that “no agency responsible for resolving matters of public interest should be free to let those matters pend in perpetuity ...” Jones v. Gonzales, June 21, 2007.