Legal Opinion
Surganova v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 20, 2010No. 08-1512PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Beginning in the late 1990’s, an unlikely cast of characters assembled in Northwest Chicago and played out a tumultuous drama, which culminated in the Department of Homeland Security’s initiation of removal proceedings against Antonina Surganova in 2004. Surganova, a 58-year-old Lithuanian native and Ukrainian citizen, had succeeded in changing her immigration status to that of a lawful permanent resident upon her marriage to Joseph Beaudion, a U.S. citizen, in April 2001. But, the government learned, things were not as they seemed. Working on a tip from Surganova’s former…
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