USCIS 39 Country Adjudication PausePolicy Tracker

This is a certified class action challenging multiple USCIS policies and actions suspending parole-related benefits and terminating certain parole programs. The parties have engaged in extensive briefing, appeals to the First Circuit, and discovery disputes; the court has entered both emergency relief (a TRO) and a preliminary injunction blocking the en masse termination of Family Reunification Parole and plaintiffs have since pressed additional preliminary-injunction and summary-judgment claims related to USCIS benefit suspensions. The case remains active with outstanding dispositive motions, discovery motions, and an ongoing challenge to USCIS policy guidance and implementation.

Plaintiffs filed a mandamus and APA challenge to a USCIS policy memorandum and sought a preliminary injunction, later amending their complaint and moving for expedited discovery. The court ordered expedited production of the administrative record, held a preliminary-injunction hearing on February 10, 2026 (no witness testimony), and required brief post-hearing statements and declarations from the parties; both sides have filed briefs, the administrative record, and supplemental filings.

Plaintiffs filed this lawsuit challenging USCIS policy PM-602-0194 and related actions, subsequently amending the complaint to add many plaintiffs. They moved for an emergency preliminary injunction and the court set briefing rules, granted plaintiffs permission to proceed under pseudonyms for all 197 plaintiffs, allowed parts of the administrative record and the policy memo to be filed, and held an in-person hearing on February 13, 2026; the court has taken the injunction motion under advisement and requested limited supplemental filings.

Plaintiffs have sued to challenge USCIS Policy Memorandum PM-602-0194 and sought a preliminary injunction; the motion for a preliminary injunction is pending with a hearing set for March 3, 2026. The government has been served, the parties agreed to an extension of briefing, and the court ordered the government to produce the administrative record by February 20, 2026 while terminating the plaintiffs' ex parte expedited-discovery request.

Plaintiffs have sued to block USCIS Policy Memorandum PM-602-0194 and immediately sought a preliminary injunction and expedited discovery. The U.S. Attorney (defendant) has been served and has requested and received extensions to respond; the government has now filed oppositions to both the emergency discovery requests and the preliminary injunction motion, so the court must decide those pending motions.

Plaintiffs filed a multi‑plaintiff lawsuit challenging DHS/USCIS policy and have amended their complaint multiple times. The court has issued summonses to the federal defendants, admitted out‑of‑district counsel pro hac vice, and plaintiffs have moved for a preliminary injunction; defendants have filed a consented request for more time to respond.