191335P.pdf   08/28/2020  Orwa Al-Saadoon  v.  William P. Barr
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-1335
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Melloy and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Immigration. For the court's prior opinion in the matter see 
   Al-Saadoon v. Lynch, 816 F.3d 1012 (8th Cir. 2016). The district court 
   properly held it did not have jurisdiction to review USCIS's discretionary 
   denial of plaintiffs' request for their lawful permanent resident status 
   to be reinstated nunc pro tunc; since adjustment to lawful permanent 
   resident status is a prerequisite to naturalization, plaintiffs could not 
   meet the legal requirements for naturalization; to the extent plaintiffs 
   attempt to relitigate the determination that they were unlawfully admitted 
   to permanent resident status in 2002, the argument was barred by res 
   judicata; with respect to plaintiffs' claims they were impermissibly 
   denied relief under a secret Controlled Application Review and Resolution 
   Program, their claims were broad and speculative and were properly 
   dismissed; plaintiffs could not amend their complaint to state a RFRA 
   claim by including the claims for the first time in their response to the 
   government's motion to dismiss.