After lawsuit, DACA recipients win permits to travel outside the U.S. and come back

“ The complaint filed against the Biden administration in April had sought a response from immigration authorities to the applications that 84 Dreamers submitted nine months ago. They’d had to push their trip back by five months because of the delayed reply. Attorney Jorge Gonzalez said some of the applicants had received notices saying their paperwork would not be expedited. After the lawsuit was filed, he noticed a change — applicants started receiving notification that their travel documents were being generated”

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...vel-outside-us

Huh? AP is already in force

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so 84 ppl wasted their time filing lawsuits

Not really. This is actually pretty common elsewhere with USCIS (e.g. AOS cases sitting in limbo for years), you start a mandamus suit against USCIS and lo and behold, your case makes it to the front of the line and gets approved within a few days of you serving them a summons. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a special team somewhere whose job is to intercept and turn around cases they get a mandamus suit for.