Legal Opinion
Abdelwahab v. Frazier
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 26, 2009No. 08-1078PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Chief Judge.
This immigration case illustrates how complex laws and procedures and the over lapping jurisdiction of multiple agency offices can result in unfortunate delays in resolving issues of great importance to individual petitioners. In the midst of protracted agency proceedings, petitioners Walid El-Baz Abdelwahab, a citizen of Egypt, and his wife Alice, a U.S. citizen, brought this action seeking an order compelling officials of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to approve Alice’s Form 1-130 spousal immigrant visa petition, then pending on appeal, and to set aside the…
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