A national immigration group voluntarily dismissed a lawsuit filed against US Citizenship and Immigration Services over abrupt changes to forms for green cards and other benefits without a grace period for applications already submitted.

After the American Immigration Lawyers Association sued in the US District Court for the District of Columbia last week, USCIS announced it would accept applications using prior editions of the forms for a limited time.

Judge Dabney L. Friedrich granted a dismissal without prejudice in a Wednesday minute order.

AILA’s lawsuit claimed the agency violated the Administrative Procedure Act by making changes to the forms without ...