Legal Opinion
Rudite Pede v. Alberto R. Gonzales
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 24, 2006No. 05-1897PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, Circuit Judge.
Soon after arriving in the United States from Latvia in 1997, Rudite Pede married Alexander Mishulovich, a United States citizen, and applied for adjustment of status. But several things stood in the way of her becoming a permanent resident. She obtained her visa for entry into this country by fraud and she presented a phony passport in the name of Dace Medinieee upon arrival. Also, not to skip an unusual detail, her husband (Mishulovich) was a sex-slave trafficker (Latvian women imported to work as “dancers” in Chicago nightclubs) with whom Pede was in cahoots.
In 1999,…
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