A suit seeking to compel the Department of Justice to investigate an immigrant’s complaint about his lawyer was properly dismissed because the immigrant didn’t show the agency’s delay was unreasonable, the Ninth Circuit said Monday.
Prymas Vaz filed his complaint with DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review against his attorney, Sonjay Sobti, in May 2018. Vaz claimed that he paid Sobti about $100,000 from 2006 to 2016 to help with his asylum application, but Sobti never updated or consulted him and forged his signature on documents.
About two years later, Vaz sued the EOIR for not providing him with updates ...
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