Immigration – Civil Practice – Mootness – Visa Reinstatement

By: S.C. Lawyers Weekly staff//April 24, 2023

During the course of this litigation, plaintiffs – whose nonimmigrant visas had been revoked by defendant – received new visas of the same type. Consequently, plaintiffs’ claims are moot.

We affirm summary judgment for defendant.

Also during the course of this litigation, plaintiffs learned that some of their visas had been automatically revoked while others were revoked by mail, which defendant sent to their defunct employer and received back as undeliverable. The district court did not abuse its discretion when it declined to allow two classes of plaintiff to continue in this single lawsuit and dismissed without prejudice the claims of the plaintiffs whose visas were revoked by undelivered mail.

Sakthivel v. Jaddou (Lawyers Weekly No. 003-014-23, 13 pp.) (Per Curiam) No. 21-1207. Appealed from USDC at Columbia, S.C. (Cameron McGowan Currie, S.J.) Bradley Bruce Banias for appellants; Vanessa Molina, Brian Boynton, William Peachey, Glenn Girdharry and Aaron Goldsmith for appellees. 4^th Cir. Unpub.

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