Legal Opinion
Elias Eid v. John Thompson
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided January 10, 2014No. 12-4271PublishedCited by 194 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
AMBRO, Circuit Judge.
Elias Eid and Gwen Packard-Eid filed a complaint challenging the denial by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) of the 1-130 Petition for Alien Relative filed by Packard-Eid, a United States citizen, that would accord Eid, her husband and a non-citizen, preference status as the spouse of a citizen. The BIA denied the Petition under 8 U.S.C. § 1154(c), which requires denying the petitions of aliens who had previously received or attempted to receive immigration benefits based on a marriage “entered into for the purpose of evading the immigration…
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