M.B. v. Andrea Quarantillo, Immigration and Naturalization Service

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• holding that the APA enabled a district court to review the Attorney General‟s decision regarding an application for special immigration juvenile status because the INA did not preclude review of that decision and the decision was not committed to agency discretion
• stating that the purpose of the amendments is to “curtail the granting of special immigrant juvenile status
• recognizing the Immigration and Naturalization Service can reasonably consider the requirements of a petition for SIJ classification
• applying that principle to field guidance for adjudications by the Service’s predecessor agency
• court had jurisdiction under INA to review Attorney General’s denial of SIJ applicant’s request to have dependency status determined by state juvenile court
• \The legislative history confirms that the revision in the statute was intended to curtail the granting of special immigrant juvenile status.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).