The Third Circuit has determined that the jurisdiction stripping provisions in 8 U.S.C. 1252(a)(2)(B) apply to appeals that arise outside of the petition for review process. Accordingly, the court found that federal courts lacked jurisdiction to review a challenge under the Administrative Procedure Act to USCIS’s policy of holding an adjustment of status application in abeyance when the priority date retrogresses during the pendency of hte permanent residency application.
The full text of Geda v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services can be found here:
https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/232195p.pdf