Legal Opinion

Ngonga v. Sessions

Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Decided July 25, 2018No. Civil Action No. 17-2828 (JEB)PublishedCited by 35 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge

Plaintiffs Ernest Ngonga and Danny Fokou, a married couple residing in Lovettsville, Virginia, seek a reversal of the United States Citizenship and Immigration *273Services' Washington Field Office's denial of Ngonga's visa petition on behalf of Fokou. When the Field Office Director determined that Fokou's prior marriage had been entered into for the purposes of obtaining an immigration benefit, she denied Ngonga's Form I-130 (Petition for Alien Relative), a decision later affirmed by the Board of Immigration Appeals. See Compl., ¶¶ 1-2. Plaintiffs…

2Cases cited11 opinions

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