Canadian’s Permission To Enter U.S. Not Unreasonably Delayed Given COVID-19 Backlog

( August 16, 2024, 8:10 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal court granted the federal government’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit by a Canadian citizen seeking to compel the adjudication of the citizen’s application to enter the United States as a nonimmigrant, which had been pending without a decision for nearly 26 months at the time of the lawsuit, finding that the delay was not unreasonable given government’s limited resources and a backlog largely created by the COVID-19 pandemic....

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