Legal Opinion
Slyper v. Attorney General
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided December 22, 1983No. Civ. A. 82-3048PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HAROLD H. GREENE, District Judge.
Plaintiff, a physician, entered the United States in 1979 as a nonimmigrant exchange visitor to receive graduate medical education. 1 Exchange visitors are required under the statute to return to their native land for two years before they are eligible to apply for permanent residence in this country; 2 unless the Attorney General waives the foreign residence requirement. The Attorney General may do so, inter alia, if it is demonstrated that departure from the United States would impose “exceptional hardship” on the alien’s spouse or child. The…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Moser v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
- Vuthisit Prapavat and Jongchit Prapavat v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1981
- Joaquin Marcelo Veron Ramos and Maria Milagros Ramos v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
- Domingo Bastidas v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1979
- Keh Tong Chen v. Attorney General of the United StatesDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1982
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Faiz A. Al-Khayyal v. United States Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1987
- Al-Khayyal v. United States Immigration & Naturalization ServiceDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 1986
- Garay v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1985
- Younghee Na Huck v. Attorney General of United StatesDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1987
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