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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1361 Petition for Writ of Mandamus

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SCOTT N. SCHOOLS, SC SBN 9990

United States Attorney

JOANN M. SWANSON, CSBN 88143

Assistant United States Attorney

Chief, Civil Division

ILA C. DEISS, NY SBN 3052909

Assistant United States Attorney

450 Golden Gate Avenue, Box 36055

San Francisco, California 94102

Telephone: (415) 436-7124

FAX: (415) 436-7169

Attorneys for Defendants

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

RAED SWEIS, )

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Plaintiff, )

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v. )

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ROBERT MUELLER III, Director, )

Federal Bureau of Investigations; )

MICHAEL CHERTOFF, Secretary, )

Department of Homeland Security; )

DAVID STILL, District Director, U.S. )

Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS); ) 

EMILIO GONZALEZ, Director, USCIS )

TERRY RICE, San Francisco Field Office )

Director, USCIS, )

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Defendants. )

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No. C 07-2044 MEJ

STIPULATION TO TRANSFER VENUE OF

ACTION TO EASTERN DISTRICT OF

CALIFORNIA; AND [PROPOSED] ORDER

[28 U.S.C. § 1406(a)]

This is an action arising under 8 U.S.C. § 1447(b). Plaintiff, a resident of Rancho Cordova,

California, alleges that he attended a naturalization examination on March 15, 2006, but his

application remains unadjudicated.

Pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1447(b), if there is failure to make a naturalization determination 120

days or more after the date of a naturalization examination, the applicant may apply to the United

States District Court for the district in which the applicant resides for a hearing on the matter.

Rancho Cordova, California is located in Sacramento County, in the Eastern District of

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California. 28 U.S.C. § 84(a). Accordingly, venue for this action is proper in the Eastern District,

but not in this District. 

The parties to this action, by and through their attorneys, hereby stipulate and request of the

Court that this action should be transferred to the Eastern District of California pursuant to 28

U.S.C. § 1406(a). Section 1406(a) provides:

The district court of a district in which is filed a case laying in venue in the wrong division

or district shall dismiss, or if it be in the interest of justice, transfer such case to any district

or division in which it could have been brought. 

Because venue is proper only in the Eastern District, the parties believe that the interests of justice

require that this action be transferred to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of

California.

In addition, the time for a response to the complaint has not yet run, and in view of the

uncertainty as to when this action will be docketed and assigned to a judge in the Eastern District

of California, the parties further stipulate and request of the Court that the time for the Defendants

to answer, move, plead or otherwise respond to the Complaint should be extended to 40 days after

the date the action is docketed and assigned to a judge in the Eastern District of California.

Date: May 31, 2007 Respectfully submitted,

SCOTT N. SCHOOLS

United States Attorney

__________/s/_________________

ILA C. DEISS

Assistant United States Attorney

Attorneys for Defendants

__________/s/_________________

Date: May 31, 2007 ELIAS Z. SHAMIEH

Attorney for Plaintiff

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ORDER

The foregoing stipulation is approved and this action is hereby transferred to the United

States District Court for the Eastern District of California, the judicial district in which this case

should have been brought. The time for Defendants to answer, move, plead or otherwise respond

to the Plaintiff’s Complaint shall be extended to 40 days after the action is docketed, and a judge

assigned, in the Eastern District of California. IT IS SO ORDERED.

Date: 

MARIA-ELENA JAMES

United States Magistrate Judge

June 5, 2007

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