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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 21:841 Forfeiture Property-Drugs

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Stipulation to Alter/Amend Order

C07-2145 MMC 1

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 Respondents

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

JAVIER VILLALVAZO MUNDO, )

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Petitioner, )

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v. )

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United States Department of Homeland Security )

(“DHS”); Department of Homeland Security, )

Secretary MICHAEL CHERTOFF; USCIS )

Director, EMILIO T. GONZALEZ; USCIS )

California Service Center Director, CHRISTINA )

POULOS; DAVID N. STILL, Director of USCIS )

San Francisco District Office; Attorney General )

of the United States, ALBERTO GONZALES; )

and all unknown government agencies, )

)

Respondents. )

________________________________________)

No. C 07-2145 MMC

JOINT REQUEST TO AMEND OR

ALTER COURT ORDER OF JULY 23,

2007

On July 23, 2007 this Court granted Defendants’ opposed motion to remand and remanded this

matter “to the Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and Immigration

Services (USCIS), with instructions to adjudicate petitioner’s application after the conclusion of

petitioner’s removal proceedings.” July 23, 2007 Order at 3.

Defendants’ motion was based on the representation that petitioner, who has been convicted of

a federal drug offense and is currently incarcerated in a federal prison in Oregon, had been placed

in removal proceedings by the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs

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Enforcement (ICE). The parties have since been informed that ICE has not yet served petitioner

with the Notice to Appear, but intends to do so upon his release from prison. This means that

petitioner is not yet in removal proceedings and that USCIS is not barred under 8 U.S.C. § 1429

from adjudicating petitioner’s application for naturalization.

After conferring, the parties, rather than ask the court to take jurisdiction over this matter under

8 U.S.C. § 1447(b) and allow Defendants to re-file a motion for remand, agree that it is both in the

best interest of petitioner and the Court to remand the matter to USCIS with instructions to

adjudicate petitioner’s application for naturalization forthwith. The parties agree that 8 U.S.C. §

1421(c) will provide a more appropriate forum for petitioner to challenge a denial, if there is one,

of his application for naturalization in district court. 

Date: July 27, 2007 Respectfully submitted,

SCOTT N. SCHOOLS

United States Attorney

 /s/

ILA C. DEISS

Assistant United States Attorney

Attorneys for Respondents

 /s/

Date: July 27, 2007 ALEXANDER H. LUBARSKY

Attorney for Petitioner 

ORDER

Pursuant to Stipulation, the Court’s July 23, 2007 Order is hereby modified to the extent

that this matter is REMANDED to the Department of Homeland Security, United States

Citizenship and Immigration Services, with instructions to adjudicate petitioner’s application for

naturalization forthwith. 

Date:

MAXINE M. CHESNEY

United States District Judge

August 8, 2007

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