Legal Opinion
PATEL
Board of Immigration Appeals
Decided July 1, 1988No. ID 3083PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Interim Decision #3083 MATTER OF PATEL In Visa Petition Proceedings A-27714297 Decided by Board October 25, 1988 (1) Section 204(aX2XA) of the Immigration and Nationality Act,
8 U.S.C. § 1154
(aX2XA) (Supp. IV 1986), applies retroactively to a spousal second-preference petition which was pending adjudication when the Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986, Pub. L. Isle. 99-639, 100 Stat. 3537, became law. (2) Section 204(aX2)(A) of the Act sets forth a presumption of a fraudulent prior mar- riage in any visa petition in which fewer than h years will have elapsed between the time a…
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