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UNITED STA TES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE

SOUTH ERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
M iam iD ivision

CaseN um ber: 12-23533-CW -M 0 M N0

LESLIE STUART,etal.,

Plaintiff,

VS.

UNITED STATES GOV ERN M ENT,etal.,

Defendant.
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FINAL ORDER O F DISM ISSAL

DENYING ALL PENDIN G M O TION S AS M OO T

THISCAUSE camebeforetheCourtuponPlaintiffsFirstAmendedComplaint(D.E.No.7),filed
October 17.2012.

Plaintiff has filed an am ended complaint after the Court dism issed his initialcomplaint sua

sponteforfailuretocomplywithFed.R.Civ.P.10(b).(D.E.No.5).Plaintiffsamendedcomplaintalleges
thathewasunlawfully deniedentry intotheUnited Statesby U.S.Departm entofHomelandSecurity officers

onM arch29,2010andthathesuffereddamagesasaresult.(D.E.No.7at$$ 17,49-60).

THE COURT,having considered the notice and the pertinentportions ofthe record,and being

otherwise fully advised in the premises,tindsthatitlackssubjectmatterjurisdiction to hearthiscase.

Accordingly,thecaseisdismissedwithoutprejudice.
The doctrine of consular nonreview ability holds that a consular official's decision to issue or

withholdavisaisnotsubjecttojudicialreview.DeCastrov.Fairman,164Fed.Appx.930,932,2006WL
229022,*1(11thCir.2006)(quoting SaavedraBrunov.Albright,l97F.3d 1153,1159 (D.C.Cir.1999)).
Here,thePlaintiffallegesthathe wasunlaw fully denied admission into theUnited Stateswhileattem pting

toboardatlightfrom Freeport,BahamastoFortLauderdale,Florida.(D.E.No.7atIJ17).Plaintifffurther
alleges thatU .S.DepartmentofHomeland Security officersfalsified docum entation in orderto barM r.

Leslie'sentry intotheUnited Statesforaperiodofthree(3)yearsbasedon apreviousvisaoverstay.(ItLat

5 23).

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 TheUnited StatesCourtofAppealsforthe Eleventh Circuithasrecognizedthedoctrineofconsular

nonreviewability.DeCastro,2006W L 229022at*1.Accordingly,thiscourtlacksjurisdictiontoreview the

decisionsofconsularofficersortheirfunctionalequivalents.See Doan v.Imm igration andNaturalization

A rv.,160 F.3d 508,509 (8th Cir.1998)(holding thatdecision ofU.S.lmmigration and Naturalization

Servicedistrictdirector,whowasfunctionalequivalentofaconsularofficial,in denyingvisa-relatedwaiver

wasnotsubjecttojudicialreview becausetherewasnoclearstatutorygrantofauthority);fiHingofHong
Kong,Inc.v.fevin,800F.2d970,971(9th Cir.1986)(''(I)thasbeen consistently heldthattheconsular
official'sdecisiontoissueorwithholdavisaisnotsubjecteithertoadministrativeorjudicialreview.f
');
Burrafatov.UnitedstatesDep'tofstate,523F.2d554,556n.2(2dCir.1975)(recognizingthatcourtwould
lackjurisdictiontoreview denialofvisaapplicationbyconsulinPalermo,ltaly).
Because the Courtlacksjurisdiction to review the U.S.DepartmentofHomeland Security'
s
determination thatM r.Leslie wasinadm issible ,itis

ADJUDGED thatthisCauseisDISM ISSED withoutprejudice.Further,allpendingmotions

areDENIED asMOOT,includingPlaintiffsMotionforlnjunctiveRelief(D.E.No.6),filedOctober17.
2012.

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DONE AN D ORDERED in ChambersatM iam i,Florida,this' day ofOctober,2012.

FEDE .M O NO
CH F UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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