DURAN-MONTOYA

Interim Decision #1408 MATIDR OF DORAN-MONTOYA In SECTION 245 Proceedings A-12354681 Decided by Regional Commissioner September 16, 1963 . Adjustment of status under section 245, Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, is denied, in the exercise of discretion, where applicant made no effort to legally terminate his first marriage entered into in Colombia by re- ligious ceremony which, while not civilly recorded, is regarded as a valid marriage, prior to entering into a second marriage in the United States in 1960 with a third party with whom he has since lived in a husband-wife…