Case Name: Marleny CASAS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. USCIS DISTRICT DIRECTOR MIAMI, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Attorney General, Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-05-01
Citations: 518 F. App'x 669
Docket Number: No. 12-15165
Parties: Marleny CASAS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. USCIS DISTRICT DIRECTOR MIAMI, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Attorney General, Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before HULL, PRYOR and MARTIN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 518
Pages: 669–670

Head Matter:
Marleny CASAS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. USCIS DISTRICT DIRECTOR MIAMI, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Attorney General, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 12-15165
Non-Argument Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
May 1, 2013.
Eduardo Rigoberto Soto, Law Office of Eduardo Soto, Coral Gables, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Milton Aponte, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Miami, FL, Regan Hildebrand, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.
Before HULL, PRYOR and MARTIN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Marleny Casas, a native and citizen of Cuba, appeals the summary judgment in favor of the District Director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, and the Attorney General of the United States. After the entry of a final order of removal against her, Casas complained that the denial of her second application for an adjustment of status under the Cuban Adjustment Act, Pub.L. 89-732, 80 Stat. 1161 (1966), violated the Administrative Procedures Act, 5 U.S.C. § 706, and she sought relief under the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201, and the Mandamus Act, id. § 1361. Casas argues that a genuine factual dispute exists about whether she presented a fraudulent passport to an immigration inspector and that dispute barred summary judgment in favor of the defendants. We affirm.
The district court did not err. Casas misunderstands the standard of review of an agency action. Under the Administrative Procedures Act, the "task of the reviewing court is to apply the appropriate APA standard of review . to the agency decision based on the record [provided by] the agency." Florida Power & Light Co. v. Lorion, 470 U.S. 729, 743-44, 105 S.Ct. 1598, 1607, 84 L.Ed.2d 643 (1985). The administrative record establishes, as the district court concluded, that the agency based its decision to deny Casas's application for adjustment of status on substantial evidence that she submitted a fraudulent passport to immigration officials. The question before the district court was whether that decision of the agency was arbitrary, capricious, or an abuse of discretion. Casas cannot relitigate de novo the underlying factual dispute that the agency resolved.
We AFFIRM the summary judgment in favor of the defendants.