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TONY WEST

Assistant Attorney General

DAVID J. KLINE

Director, District Court Section

Office of Immigration Litigation

VICTOR M. LAWRENCE

Principal Assistant Director

NICOLE R. PRAIRIE, DCBN 982601

Trial Attorney

P.O. Box 868, Ben Franklin Station

Washington, D.C. 20044

Telephone: (202) 532-4074; FAX: (202) 305-7000

Attorneys for Defendant

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAEED AHMED, )

) No. 08-cv-1680 (MHP)

Plaintiff, )

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v. )

) JOINT STATUS REPORT AND

) STIPULATION TO FURTHER HOLD 

ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS, ) MATTER IN ABEYANCE

Director, United States Citizenship )

and Immigration Services, )

)

Defendant. )

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The parties respectfully submit this status report as a follow-up to the stipulation to hold

this matter in abeyance for thirty (30) days:

1. On February 1, 2010, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”)

interviewed Plaintiff Saeed Ahmed to give him the opportunity to respond to USCIS’s evidence

that Plaintiff engaged in terrorist activity, to wit: Evidence that indicates that Plaintiff provided

material support to the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (“MQM”), and the Mojajir Qaumi MovementAtlaf (MQM-A). 

 Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 25(d), Alejandro Mayorkas, Director of United States 1

Citizenship and Immigration Services, is automatically substituted for his predecessor, Jonathan

Sharfen.

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2. At the present time, the agency is examining the facts elicited at the February 1, 2010

interview and the facts contained in Plaintiff’s I-485 Application for Adjustment of Status and

asylum application.

3. Specifically, USCIS is considering whether or not to reopen Plaintiff’s I-485

Application for Adjustment of Status.

4. The agency expects to make a decision regarding the reopening within approximately

sixty (60) days, and the parties respectfully request that the Court continue to hold this matter in

abeyance until USCIS renders its decision based on the recent interview.

WHEREFORE, with good cause having been shown, the parties hereby request that this

Court issue an order granting an extension of the abeyance of matters in this case for a period of

sixty (60) days from the date of issuance of the abeyance order.

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JOINT STATUS REPORT

No. 08-cv-1680 (MHP) 2

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Dated: February 22, 2010 Respectfully submitted,

TONY WEST

Assistant Attorney General

DAVID J. KLINE

Director, District Court Section

VICTOR M. LAWRENCE

Principal Assistant Director

By: /s/ Nicole R. Prairie 

NICOLE R. PRAIRIE

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Trial Attorney

Office of Immigration Litigation

U.S. Department of Justice

P.O. Box 868, Ben Franklin Station

Washington, D.C. 20044

(202) 532-4074; 305-7000 (FAX)

Nicole.Prairie@usdoj.gov

Attorneys for Defendant

Dated: February 22, 2010 /s/ Jonathan M. Kaufman (with permission) 

JONATHAN M. KAUFMAN

The Law Offices of Jonathan M. Kaufman

220 Montgomery Street

Suite 976

San Francisco, CA 94104

(415) 956-4765; 956-1664 (FAX)

Attorney for Plaintiff

ORDER

Pursuant to stipulation, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated this ___day of ______, 2010 

MARILYN H. PATEL

United States District Judge

 I, Nicole R. Prairie, hereby attest that I have on file all holograph signatures for any 2

signatures indicated by a “conformed” signature (/s/) within this e-filed document.

JOINT STATUS REPORT

No. 08-cv-1680 (MHP) 3

23rd February

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Marilyn H. Patel

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