Legal Opinion
United States v. Osyp Firishchak
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 20, 2006No. 05-3852PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Chief Judge.
In 1949, Osyp Firishchak filed an application for a visa to the United States under the Displaced Persons Act (“DPA”). In November 1954, he became a naturalized United States citizen. Several decades later, the Department of Justice uncovered documents suggesting that Firishchak served in the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (“UAP”) during World War II — a fact he did not disclose in his 1949 visa application. The discovery of these documents resulted in a trial, in which the district court ordered Firishc-hak denaturalized. Firishchak now appeals the judgment of the trial court.…
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