Legal Opinion
Lois Frolova v. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 1, 1985No. 83-1451PublishedCited by 156 opinions
1Per curiam
Lois Becker, an American citizen and a graduate student at Stanford University, traveled to the Soviet Union in 1981 to do research for her dissertation on nineteenth century Russian political literature. While there, she met and fell in love with Andrei Frolov, a Soviet citizen, and the two of them were married in Moscow on May 19, 1981. The plaintiff, now as Lois Frolova, returned to the United States when her visa expired in June 1981. Her husband was forced to stay behind because he did not yet have the documentation or official permission needed to leave the Soviet Union. In September…
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