Legal Opinion
Trinidad Klene v. Janet Napolitano
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 12, 2012No. 12-1223PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
An alien (Trinidad Kierulf Klene, of the Philippines) applied for citizenship. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“the agency”) denied the application after concluding that Klene’s marriage to a U.S. citizen had been fraudulent. Klene promptly asked a district court for relief under 8 U.S.C. § 1421(c), which allows a judge to make an independent decision about an alien’s entitlement to be naturalized; later, the agency opened proceedings to remove her from the United States. Once the administrative removal proceedings were under way, the agency asked…
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