The First Circuit has granted in part the government's request to stay a district court order that had blocked three USCIS policies challenged by refugee resettlement and labor organizations under the Administrative Procedure Act, limiting the stay to the agency's "Comprehensive Re-Review Policy" directing a re-review of approved benefit requests for nationals of certain countries who entered on or after January 20, 2021.
Applying the traditional four-factor stay standard, the Court found the government had not met its burden as to the other two challenged policies, allowing the district court's stay of those policies to remain in effect while the appeal proceeds.
The full text of Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island v. USCIS can be found here: https://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/opnfiles/26-1703P-01A.pdf