Legal Opinion
Tanuja-Sahai v. Gonzales
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 30, 2007No. 05-60625PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:
The petitioner seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (“BIA”) ruling that she was statutorily ineligible for an extreme hardship waiver based on a finding that her marriage was not entered into in good faith. 8 U.S.C. § 1186a(c)(4)(A). Finding the plain language of the statute does not require a good faith marriage to obtain an extreme hardship waiver, we grant the petition.
I. BACKGROUND
Tanuja Sahai Gil Waggoner (Waggoner) is a native and citizen of the Fiji Islands. She entered the United States in April 1991 on a nonimmigrant visa. Waggoner married a…
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