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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 8:1446 Petition for Naturalization Hearing

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STIPULATION TO TRANSFER

C07-4772 JW 1

JOSEPH P. RUSSONIELLO, CSBN 44332

United States Attorney

JOANN M. SWANSON, CSBN 88143

Assistant United States Attorney

Chief, Civil Division

MELANIE L. PROCTOR, CSBN 228971

Assistant United States Attorney

450 Golden Gate Avenue, Box 36055

San Francisco, California 94102

Telephone: (415) 436-6730

FAX: (415) 436-7169

Attorneys for Defendants

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

RAJVINDER SINGH, )

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Plaintiff, )

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v. )

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MICHAEL CHERTOFF, Secretary of )

Homeland Security; EMILIO T. GONZALES, )

Director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration )

Services; ROSEMARY MELVILLE, District )

Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration )

Services; FRANCIS D. SICILIANO, Officer in )

Charge of the San Jose Office of the U.S. )

Citizenship and Immigration Services, )

)

Defendants. ) )

No. C 07-4772 JW

STIPULATION TO TRANSFER

PROPOSED ORDER

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

that he attended an interview on his naturalization application on November 15, 2004, but the

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.

Tracy, California is located in San Joaquin County, in the Eastern District of California. 28 U.S.C.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge James Ware

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I, Melanie L. Proctor, hereby attest that I have on file all holograph signatures for any

signatures indicated by a “conformed” signature (/S/) within this efiled document.

STIPULATION TO TRANSFER

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§ 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.

Dated: January 28, 2008 Respectfully submitted,

JOSEPH P. RUSSONIELLO

United States Attorney

 /s/ MELANIE L. PROCTOR1

Assistant United States Attorney

Attorneys for Defendants

Dated: January 28, 2008 /s/ 

KANWAL M. SINGH

Attorney for Plaintiff

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. IT IS SO ORDERED.

Date: 

JAMES WARE

United States District Judge

The Clerk shall close this case upon transfer.

January 30, 2008

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