FILED NOT FOR PUBLICATION JUN 10 2020 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT JASON SINAGWANA NSINANO, AKA No. 18-55582 Jason Nsinano, D.C. No. Petitioner-Appellant, 5:17-cv-00094-VBF-GJS v. MEMORANDUM* WILLIAM P. BARR, Attorney General, Respondent-Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Valerie Baker Fairbank, District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted May 14, 2020 Portland, Oregon Before: BYBEE and VANDYKE, Circuit Judges, and CHHABRIA,** District Judge. While detained by immigration authorities, Petitioner Jason Nsinano filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. The primary relief * This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The Honorable Vince Chhabria, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, sitting by designation. sought by the petition was a law enforcement certification under 8 U.S.C. § 1184(p) that would enable Nsinano to apply for a U-visa. The district court dismissed the petition for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. Because the parties are familiar with the facts, we do not recite them here except as necessary. We dismiss the appeal. 1. Nsinano argues that, under a liberal construction of his pro se habeas petition, he alleged a due process-based challenge to his prolonged detention without a bond hearing. Assuming that is true, Nsinano’s due process claim is moot because he has since been released from immigration custody on bond. See Abdala v. INS, 488 F.3d 1061, 1064 (9th Cir. 2007) (“[A] petitioner’s release from detention under an order of supervision moot[s] his challenge to the legality of his extended detention.” (internal quotation marks omitted)). In other words, Nsinano’s due process claim was “fully resolved by release from custody.” Id. at 1065. His reliance on Diouf v. Napolitano, 634 F.3d 1081 (9th Cir. 2011), and Rodriguez v. Hayes, 591 F.3d 1105 (9th Cir. 2010), is misplaced because those cases dealt with habeas petitioners who were no longer in custody at the Government’s discretion and no legal impediment to redetention existed. See Diouf, 634 F.3d at 1084 n.3 (petitioner released pursuant to a preliminary injunction that was subsequently vacated, and Government “elected [not] to 2 redetain him”); Rodriguez, 591 F.3d at 1117 (petitioner released under regulatory provision providing immigration authorities near total discretion to redetain petitioner). Thus, Nsinano’s due process claim is moot. 2. As for Nsinano’s request for a U-visa certification, we lack jurisdiction to review this issue. We agree that the district court appears to have misinterpreted Nsinano’s claim as a challenge to the denial of a U-visa application. Nsinano asked only for a law enforcement certification under 8 U.S.C. § 1184(p). But this misinterpretation is of little import here, for the district court indicated near the end of its order that it would not issue a certification because “[t]he appropriate Court to issue a law enforcement certification is the court that dealt with the underlying criminal case (if one exists) ...
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