Legal Opinion
Salim Mawji v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 12, 1982No. 81-7376PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
Salim Mawji entered the United States in August 1973 as a nonimmigrant visitor and remained beyond the time authorized. In June 1974 he submitted an application for permanent resident status as an investor. The District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service, denied the application and instituted deportation proceedings. Mawji abandoned the application.
At his deportation hearing, he submitted a new application for investor status, claiming a $12,000 investment in, a fast food restaurant. At the time, nonpreference visas were available, and an alien was eligible…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- United States v. LarionoffSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Ka Fung Chan v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
- Yui Sing Tse and Debbie Siu-Mai Tse v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1979
- David Pei-Chi Tien v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
- Shon Ning Lee v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1978
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Neil Monet v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1986
- Robert M. Wall v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1984
- Rosa Torres-Guzman and Alberto Torres-Guzman v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1986
- Yung Tsang Chiu and Su Lau v. United States Department of Justice, Board of Immigration AppealCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1983
- Reynaldo Hurtado Flores v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1998