NOT PRECEDENTIAL UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT ___________ No. 19-3932 __________ NEDZAT KORAC, Appellant v. WARDEN FAIRTON FCI ____________________________________ On Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (D.C. Civil Action No. 1-19-cv-18451) District Judge: Honorable Renée M. Bumb ____________________________________ Submitted Pursuant to Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a) July 1, 2020 Before: AMBRO, GREENAWAY, Jr., and PORTER, Circuit Judges (Opinion filed: August 4, 2020) ___________ OPINION* ___________ PER CURIAM Pro se appellant Nedzat Korac appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey dismissing his petition brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. * This disposition is not an opinion of the full Court and pursuant to I.O.P. 5.7 does not constitute binding precedent. § 2241. For the following reasons, we will vacate that order and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. Korac, a federal prisoner, was convicted of bank burglary and conspiracy to commit bank burglary in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He is incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in Fairton, New Jersey, and, with good time credits, has a projected release date of October 4, 2020. In September 2019, Korac filed a § 2241 petition challenging an immigration detainer lodged against him by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau (ICE). Korac sought to compel DHS and ICE to lift the detainer – which he maintains is preventing his eligibility for “any type of rehabilitation services” – because he is “stateless” and ICE “has on prior occasions lodged similar detainers against [him] only to drop said detainers with the knowledge that [he] is stateless, and thus, ‘non-deportable.’” Motion to Expedite for Emergency Hearing at 2, Habeas Pet. At 11. The District Court screened the petition pursuant to Rule 4 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 cases and dismissed it without ordering service after determining that it lacked jurisdiction because Korac was not “in custody” for purposes of § 2241. This appeal ensued. We have jurisdiction over this appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We exercise de novo review over the District Court’s order. See Gardner v. Warden Lewisburg USP, 845 F.3d 99, 102 (3d Cir. 2017). To invoke habeas jurisdiction, Korac was required to demonstrate that he was “in custody under or by color of the authority of the United States.” 28 U.S.C. § 2241(c)(1). 2 “The term ‘custody’ extends beyond physical confinement, and encompasses other significant restraints on . . . liberty that are not shared by the public generally.” Leyva v. Williams, 504 F.3d 357, 363 (3d Cir. 2007) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). The mere filing of a detainer is insufficient to establish that an alien who is detained pursuant to a criminal conviction is “in custody” for purposes of the habeas statute. See Zolicoffer v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, 315 F.3d 538, 540-41 (5th Cir. 2003). However, “[a]n individual subject to a final deportation order ...
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